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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They also argued that there’s a “substantial market” for older or classic games, and a new, free library to access games would “jeopardize” this market. Perlmutter

And if that market demand isn't being catered to, or is being actively refused to be served, is there any wonder people are finding other ways to get that stuff?

All they're doing is hoarding this old software and preventing its use based on the speculation that they might eventually figure out a way to profit from long gone developers work.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It's such bullshit it makes me want to start selling those knockoff consoles just purely out of spite.