The Library of Congress has officially created fair use exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will allow for archivists to save classic video games from going extinct!
My Nephew! and me? are wondering? if their!? was going too! be a? Glitch Please? this week? 'cause i have him out here with this weekend! 'cause? even he!? likes the Show! as well too! 'cause it helps keep him up to date with whats coming out?
@Strudleboythats what it seems like. following that logic its possible that people can set up "museums"/arcades that own the game where people can come in and play these games as long as its on premises
So, is there no Glitch Please this week? I couldn't find any announcement about no episode on the know or roosterteeth twitter. I also don't remember them saying anything in last weeks episode either. Any word on what's going on? Everyone just busy playing Red Dead?
cool. I'm interested to see how this discussion will play out a few decades from now when games-as-a-service is in full swing and no one owns local copies and the service providers either go out of business or arbitrarily decide to stop providing certain games they own as part of their service and nobody can even attempt to preserve them because no one ever had them to begin with.
@matt_lech it's not an issue of customers having internet access. If the game can only be accessed as a service, and the sol-providers stop providing that service, then poof, it's gone.
Emulation itself is 100% legal and that has been supported by solid case law. As a technology, emulation is used in a wide range of areas and it and of itself is not a problem. The issue is and always has been the content that you are emulating (ROMs, etc) that you need to have acquired legally and have a proper license for.