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Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand.

So libraries are also illegal? Books, DVDs, VHS, CDS, etc. You can replace games with any of those.

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bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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- slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  hyper greed
  
  You misspelled neoliberal capitalism
  
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  - toastal@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Libraries are clearly communist… or anarchist… either way, I hate it!
    
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ArgentRaven@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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?

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- absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Lobbying. The greedy fucks will lobby until they get their way
  
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- Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Physical rentals are still legal. This is only about the legality of online rom downloads.
  
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  - 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.
    
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    Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    We can’t have access to these things now, but we used to.
    
    ??? There was no change. It was always illegal. This was a petition to change it to be legal and the petition was denied.
    
    Despite it being illegal, Internet Archive has hosted and I hope will continue to host roms collections like tiny best set go.
    
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