iN8sWoRLdOct 27, 2024

Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

https://lemmy.world/post/21304012

Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books - Lemmy.World

“Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office dealt them a heavy blow Friday. Feds declared that you or any researcher has no right to access old games under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.”

Show threadhenfredemarsOct 27, 2024

Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand.

Good grief. Some of these games have been on the Internet longer than I have been alive. They are 100-fucking-percent already available on ROM sites. You’re just shitting on people’s enjoyment for the sake of shitting.

“The game industry’s absolutist position… forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods to access the vast majority of out-of-print video games that are otherwise unavailable,” the VGHF wrote.

The spice must flow, and I can assure you that it already does.

Show threadLost_My_Mind

Good grief. Some of these games have been on the Internet longer than I have been alive.

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God damn, I’m old…

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