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Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books (gizmodo.com)

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"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."

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[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago

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

And what exactly is stopping me from scanning library books and uploading them online? Are you going to ban libraries too?

Actually, let's not give them ideas.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 50 points 5 days ago

They would love to ban libraries.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

If they didn't already exist, it's doubtful they would have been legal to make.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Isnt that what the InternetArchive did, disabled controlled lending during covid and got sued?

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