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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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[-] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

As someone who may or may not have stripped DRM from library books, they certainly never seemed to care about that. And it was never even to share, but rather to store for myself so I could read it at my own pace. And the worst part... I read it for RECREATIONAL USE

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

You wouldn't download a book?

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I hate when they say, "You wouldn't download a car".

Yes, I fucking would!

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

it was never even to share, but rather to store for myself so I could read it at my own pace. And the worst part... I read it for RECREATIONAL USE

You disgust me...what a sick and exploitive attitude.

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