“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.”

  • Beej Jorgensen
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    521 month ago

    I’d say it’s more intolerably long copyright terms than the DMCA specifically.

    • @seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      471 month ago

      The DMCA is just the icing on top of the 95-120y “work for hire” copyright duration shit cake.