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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It aint the country doing this per se... It is the ownrr class using the state against the slaves. Again

Unfortunately, this is exactly what is turning (and has been turning) the US into a shithole country.

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