Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand.
Good grief. Some of these games have been on the Internet longer than I have been alive. They are 100-fucking-percent already available on ROM sites. You’re just shitting on people’s enjoyment for the sake of shitting.
Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand.
And what exactly is stopping me from scanning library books and uploading them online? Are you going to ban libraries too?
Actually, let’s not give them ideas.
They would love to ban libraries.
If they didn’t already exist, it’s doubtful they would have been legal to make.
Isnt that what the InternetArchive did, disabled controlled lending during covid and got sued?
Physical books have no safeguards from photocopying.
I have more terrifying news about museums. We are talking pictures worth MILLIONS just waiting to be photographed.
Wait till they hear of scanners and copy machines. The books aren’t safe either!
Even worse. I’ve checked out digital eBooks and digital audiobooks from my local library. And I listened to those audiobooks for FUN. The AUDACITY!
Audacity is what I used to record those audiobooks so I could listen at my own pace, btw.
ogeist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So libraries are also illegal? Books, DVDs, VHS, CDS, etc. You can replace games with any of those.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’ve been actively fighting libraries over the years, with renewed fervor in the last decade. As numerous others have pointed out before–including the article I linked–if libraries hadn’t already been such a long-standing concept for centuries, they would 100% not be allowed to come into existence nowadays. Hyper greed has poisoned every facet of modern society.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You misspelled neoliberal capitalism
toastal@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Libraries are clearly communist… or anarchist… either way, I hate it!
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We used to rent these games from Blockbuster Video! On DVD when we had DVD burners and little to no drm! How did it suddenly not become acceptable?
absquatulate@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lobbying. The greedy fucks will lobby until they get their way
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Physical rentals are still legal. This is only about the legality of online rom downloads.
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m speaking mainly of the distrust against the public having access for fear that we’d abuse it and not give them a cut. We can’t have access to these things now, but we used to. Regardless of form, regardless of piracy.
It’s more of a move to restrict ownership when you make a purchase, that has a farther reach than just games. I could see this being applied to cars, houses, etc. In that you only rent a license, and don’t actually own anything. I see this as just a first step, and the logic they use to justify it doesn’t make sense.