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.”

  • tehn00bi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I really feel like the source code needs to be released after 25 years. We need to be able to protect older games.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There’s often no in any way complete source code after 25 years.

      Media degrade, get forgotten hell knows where, get occasionally destroyed.