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Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
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If a company is going to argue that this would harm potential future re-releases of their games, they should be forced to rerelease those games in less than a years time. Otherwise it can be understood they have no interest in bringing those games back to market.
Allow libraries to do this for games that have no re-release, and have them remove the game from emulation options if it does get a re-release. Simple solution.
That's what I've been saying for awhile. If it's not readily available after a certain amount of time, for a certain amount of time, emulation should be 100% legal. Sell it to me or fuck off.
Emulation is 100% legal, at least in the USA. Do you mean downloading a copy of such a game from the internet? Because I would agree.
Yes, I meant obtaining a copy and emulating it. If you can't show damages (it's not costing them sales) then it shouldn't be punishable.
The human world works in order that companies make money, not for you to have fun.
The human world should work in order for us to have fun, not for companies to make money.
It doesn't have to work that way. It works that way because they have more money, not because it is good for humanity.