Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is a difference there in that these are digital copies (easy to make more copies) vs physical books (hard to make more copies).

  That said, the only reason this is an issue is copyright lasts too long on relatively short lived games.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a difference there in that these are digital copies (easy to make more copies) vs physical books (hard to make more copies).

    Libraries rent out ebooks too, also easily stripped of DRM and copied if someone wants to so that. But that is seemingly not an issue.

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    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As someone who may or may not have stripped DRM from library books, they certainly never seemed to care about that. And it was never even to share, but rather to store for myself so I could read it at my own pace. And the worst part… I read it for RECREATIONAL USE

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      • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You wouldn’t download a book?

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      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        it was never even to share, but rather to store for myself so I could read it at my own pace. And the worst part… I read it for RECREATIONAL USE

        You disgust me…what a sick and exploitive attitude.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Libraries rent out ebooks too

      Libraries loan out ebooks and other media.

       

      /pet peeve.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What he’s saying is not beyond what Congress has previously laid down though. First sale doctrine should let you do whatever you want, but they actually banned renting phonographs because they thought people were recording them on tape. We’re lucky they didn’t outlaw movie rentals too back in the day. Whole copyright regime needs to die in a fire.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stop it man you’re just going to give them ideas

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