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The IA actually has a DMCA exemption for the pirated games: https://archive.org/about/dmca.php https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

• rasz 7y ago
  Not so sure about that, their big Amiga collection lasted couple of days.
  • LukeShu 7y ago
    Specifically, the part of the DMCA that the exemption is for is the part that makes it criminal to bypass copy-protection; it does not grant them additional rights to make or distribute copies. There are lots of forms of copying where the copying itself is legal under copyright law. However, the DMCA made it criminal to bypass copy-protection mechanisms, even if they copying itself would otherwise be legal. That's what the exception was for.
• eli 7y ago
  Pretty sure that temporary exemption expired and was not renewed.
  • LukeShu 7y ago
    The exemption was renewed in 2006 and in 2010 (the would-be-2009 decision was delivered late), but was not renewed in 2012. That said, the exemption was to allow legally bypassing the copy-protection mechanisms; that were preventing otherwise-legal copying. Once they bypassed the mechanism to get a non-copy-protected copy in 2003-2012, they may continue distributing copies of it now, since the act of copying was/is legal; it's the act of breaking the DRM that is once again forbidden.
    • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
      Distributing copyright works without a license is usually infringing though.
      • LukeShu 7y ago
        I'm not familiar with the details, but it is my understanding that their status as a library helps a lot with that side of it.
• cmroanirgo 7y ago
  > to be valid until the next Copyright Office rulemaking in 2006 It seems that the ruling might be a few years out of date?