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Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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A three-year fight to help support game preservation has come to a sad end today. The US copyright office has denied a request for a DMCA exemption that would allow libraries to remotely share digital access to preserved video games.

"For the past three years, the Video Game History Foundation has been supporting with the Software Preservation Network (SPN) on a petition to allow libraries and archives to remotely share digital access to out-of-print video games in their collections," VGHF explains in its statement. "Under the current anti-circumvention rules in Section 1201 of the DMCA, libraries and archives are unable to break copy protection on games in order to make them remotely accessible to researchers."

Essentially, this exemption would open up the possibility of a digital library where historians and researchers could 'check out' digital games that run through emulators. The VGHF argues that around 87% of all video games released in the US before 2010 are now out of print, and the only legal way to access those games now is through the occasionally exorbitant prices and often failing hardware that defines the retro gaming market.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 78 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Actually explains a lot of decisions by game publishers the last 5-10 years if their official position is that games are meant to collect dust on a shelf rather than being played.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You can't have criticisms about the game if you put it on a shelf instead of playing it.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Sure you can, criticisms like "takes up too much shelf space" or "is too heavy for my shelf", "doesn't go with the color of my wallpaper behind the shelf".

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good thing the games are digital now! Your virtual shelf (steam library) looks perfect with our 600gb slop shooter game!

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Knowing the game industry right now they will probably sell you different colored shelves and wallpaper and dividers,... for a premium.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mustn't forget the limited edition pre-order special shelf wallpaper.

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