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Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand.

Good grief. Some of these games have been on the Internet longer than I have been alive. They are 100-fucking-percent already available on ROM sites. You're just shitting on people's enjoyment for the sake of shitting.

“The game industry’s absolutist position… forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods to access the vast majority of out-of-print video games that are otherwise unavailable,” the VGHF wrote.

The spice must flow, and I can assure you that it already does.

That's cool. Won't really stop any of the shit that's been happening though.

Good luck corpos, for every pirate you take away ten more will take their place.

Read a comment a while ago that if libraries weren't a thing today and someone would propose them, the FBI would be on their ass and stalk after them for even suggesting such radical views. Copyright law is utterly broken and a disservice to society in it's current form and execution. Politicians need to get their fat fingers out of the stock market by law.

The DMCA is a curse.

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Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand. They also argued that there’s a “substantial market” for older or classic games, and a new, free library to access games would “jeopardize” this market. Perlmutter agreed with the industry groups.

So as long as someone, somewhere, might make a penny off of them, they can't be free. Insert your own metaphor here.

People will just continue pirating those games then.

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

Federal law does not apply to me as a Swede in Sweden.

Feds are wrong, or would be if copyright continued to serve its original purpose (according to the Constitution of the United States) to create a robust public domain.

All media should be accessible through public libraries, and arguments by federal courts presumes that the public does not have vested interest in content. It presumes the government isn't there to serve the public, which raises questions as to why we have government in the first place.

They’re right. I have been using old videos games for recreation. Too bad that they’ve decided to prevent me from paying for the privilege or at least being tracked through library usage and have instead decided it’d be better if I was just an untrackable “criminal”

Either way, I’m enjoying these old games and living my life guilt free.

Yo ho ho and fuck the police

OK, I'll download them then.

“Fair Use” is a thing. Someone needs to go back to law school.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

The irony!

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you can't stop the signal, mal

Fine. I'll start my own library. With external storage, and ROMS.

Wait I'm already doing that.

And thus. Again, piracy seems to be the moral choice

Shithole country.

insane takeover of the public square here.

Land of the Free, everybody

Bought judges belong against a wall, so that we can pick them last in dodgeball.

stop giving money to lobbyists

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good emulators out there. haven't tried any lately