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

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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 anywhere else.

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

Yeah I mean if it was applied to books this is like saying that libraries shouldn’t be able to reprint out of print books and lend them out, which would be asinine. If a library has that capability they should be able to do so.