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I'm not a lawyer or an expert, but looking at the Wikipedia page for the DMCA [0] there appears to be protection for retro games: "An exemption was made for 'C

I'm not a lawyer or an expert, but looking at the Wikipedia page for the DMCA [0] there appears to be protection for retro games: "An exemption was made for 'Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.'" EDIT: Actually archive.org posted an article about exactly this [1] [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright... [1]: https://archive.org/about/dmca.php https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

zerocrates 8y ago
The thing about DMCA anticircumvention exemptions is that they don't last: they have to be constantly renewed, and the one you mention has in fact lapsed. Plus, they only get you out of the "anticircumvention" provisions, not regular old copyright law or the more familiar DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure. In other words an exemption may allow you to legally remove or break DRM or other copy protection, but it doesn't give you any rights to make copies or display works. As best I can tell, they seem to be operating on a "see what we can get away with" model, which appears to be working out pretty well for them.
tyu1000 8y ago
This was discussed here extensively a few months ago.