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Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/games
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A three-year fight to help support game preservation has come to a sad end today. The US copyright office has denied a request for a DMCA exemption that would allow libraries to remotely share digital access to preserved video games.

"For the past three years, the Video Game History Foundation has been supporting with the Software Preservation Network (SPN) on a petition to allow libraries and archives to remotely share digital access to out-of-print video games in their collections," VGHF explains in its statement. "Under the current anti-circumvention rules in Section 1201 of the DMCA, libraries and archives are unable to break copy protection on games in order to make them remotely accessible to researchers."

Essentially, this exemption would open up the possibility of a digital library where historians and researchers could 'check out' digital games that run through emulators. The VGHF argues that around 87% of all video games released in the US before 2010 are now out of print, and the only legal way to access those games now is through the occasionally exorbitant prices and often failing hardware that defines the retro gaming market.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If im reading it correctly only the sharing is prohibited not the preservation.

I can live with that and fight again another day. As long as they still exist in an archive they will see the legal light of day someday(im being optimistic)

The high seas will take care of retro gamers who want to play them im sure, as Gaben says piracy is a service issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Given the industry's "you aren't buying, you are renting" mentality.... very, very optimistic.