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

submitted 4 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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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 65 points 4 weeks ago (26 children)

Federal law does not apply to me as a Swede in Sweden.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Nor I, as a sovereign citizen in the United States.

[–] conc@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not downloading it, the bits are travelling to my hard drive.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

May I could check out a paper copy of those bits, would that be okay? Then it's not a digital copy

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