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Well shit. The US Copyright Office has ruled that libraries can not provide remote access to preserved video games, even if each request is individually vetted. https://gamehistory.org/dmca-2024-statement/ Thank you to Phil Salvador, Kendra Albert, Laine Nooney, Dragan Espenschied, Cass Fino-Radin, Jonathan Band and everyone else who helped with the push to get games treated the same as literature, music and film. You did an amazing job. 10 comments
Here's the stream where I watched the hearings live. There was something special about watching enbies making the case for game preservation as I, an enby, worked on preserving a game. @moralrecordings "people might enjoy things? how fucking dare they >:(" @moralrecordings@digipres.club no no no, books are shudders educational and for losers and no sane person would enjoy reading them /s  @moralrecordings such garbage. And good on you for doing this. The game companies don't care about preservation. Their arguments were jokes.  @moralrecordings Some companies would rather set the Library of Alexandria on fire ten times over than lose an opportunity to monetize nostalgia.  @moralrecordings next move in Contemporary Capitalist Horrors: music, literature and film are being thinly disguised as "games" to effectively kill libraries @fbobraga @moralrecordings Entertainment Software Association. It's a lobby group of publishers and they HATE the concept of preservation because it means they don't get as much money as they want |
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God it's especially woeful having watched the hearing; the industry lobbyists gave the most flimsy counterarguments, and the one that seems to have stuck is that people might use the games for "recreational purposes". Something which we all know is impossible when watching a movie or reading a book.
I will continue to reverse engineer and preserve games without the approval of the copyright holder.