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Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 30 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Explicitly yes. Archiving is absolutely 100% legal and anybody who says otherwise is an idiot.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

(Citation needed)

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Title 17, section 108 of the U.S. Code, Archives and Libraries are exempt from Intellectual Property rights and do not require permission.

To be clear, this is in addition to section 107 which outlines fair use

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's just one country, and only covers archiving and privately storing your own media. It also doesn't technically allow for breaking DRM IIRC, which almost all media now utilises, so what you say unfortunately isn't true.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, it's just one country, were you expecting an essay on the Global legality of Archives? You didn't ask for a specific country, numbnuts.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao what's up with the hostility? Can you not just talk like a normal, civilised person? If you behaved like this in real life, people would very quickly either stop talking to you, or knock you out.

You said that it's blanket legal, in all cases, and that anybody who says otherwise is an idiot. I said that not only is that not the case in the one country you brought up, it also isn't in others.

Nobody asked you to list the laws of every country, or of any specific country. You said archiving is always legal in every case, everywhere, and said anybody who says otherwise is an idiot. Unfortunately your perception and reality don't quite line up with one another.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Me calling you numbnuts is the absolute height of my courtesy.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, I can believe it. Some people lash out and become extremely adversarial once they have anonymity. I imagine you're not this rude in person.

But yeah, your statement wasn't really true, neither for the US or elsewhere.

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