The U.S. Copyright Office denied an exemption from the DMCA to allow gaming historians to access out-of-print games they can’t legally get.

“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.”

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    We can’t have access to these things now, but we used to.

    ??? There was no change. It was always illegal. This was a petition to change it to be legal and the petition was denied.

    Despite it being illegal, Internet Archive has hosted and I hope will continue to host rom collections like tiny best set go.