Re: Maybe he'll sneak them back on eventually?
Posted by adadadadad on .
https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/index.html
"The Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, has announced the classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works."
"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace."
Why would you remove them lmao, obsolete software is exempt from DMCA.
"The Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, has announced the classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works."
"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace."
Why would you remove them lmao, obsolete software is exempt from DMCA.
Surely Vimm's got a backup of the archive somewhere, right? Hell, maybe another datahoarder has one ready to go. Maybe it's just a load of cope from me, but I really don't wanna believe it's all over after all these years haha.
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| Re: Maybe he'll sneak them back on eventually? | Danielle -- 7/9/2024 5:58 am UTC |
| Re: Maybe he'll sneak them back on eventually? | MacUser2 -- 7/8/2024 5:15 pm UTC |