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U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation
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There's a lot that just vanish into the ether when someone doesn't renew their little abandonware site they built and forgot about a decade ago. Maybe not the big names like Might & Magic, but the smaller titles most people have never heard of. Shit's a bummer if the Internet Archive doesn't get to it because then it probably only exists on a dozen 3.5" floppys in random desks that haven't been cleaned out