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

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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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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 month ago

It sounds like the problem is not with the feds but with the DMCA. It needs to be overturned.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

The dmca is a federal law, it is the feds.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

"Sounds like the problem is federal law pushed by Congressmen paid for by corporate lobbyists, not the federal government."

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Aka. regulatory capture

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Judging by the responses in here, it sounds like gamers need to quit and find something else to do

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