Gregory's ServerWell 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.
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.
@moralrecordings next move in Contemporary Capitalist Horrors: music, literature and film are being thinly disguised as "games" to effectively kill libraries
@moralrecordings Fuck the ESA with a rusty mattock