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Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by iN8sWoRLd@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

They’re right. I have been using old videos games for recreation. Too bad that they’ve decided to prevent me from paying for the privilege or at least being tracked through library usage and have instead decided it’d be better if I was just an untrackable “criminal”

Either way, I’m enjoying these old games and living my life guilt free.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You'd better not also be reading books for fun. By their logic, any recreational use of books from a library should also be considered illegal.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Only legal for educationale, reproductioning, or ownin dem libs. (sic.)

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