Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

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

"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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