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

submitted 2 weeks ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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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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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This ruling seems insane since libraries can already lend new games. I think mine still has wiiu stuff.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks 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.