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Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books (gizmodo.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office dealt them a heavy blow Friday. Feds declared that you or any researcher has no right to access old games under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Nor I, as a sovereign citizen in the United States.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not downloading it, the bits are travelling to my hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

May I could check out a paper copy of those bits, would that be okay? Then it's not a digital copy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

I do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

First time I see something like this net upvoted. Mood improved.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The concept of the sovereign citizen makes sense. You never consented to the laws you're being held to. You're forced into this system with no other options. Of course only people who have committed crimes and lost their drivers license and etc. try to evoke their weird ideas in court. But how is that any different than the laws and standards they're being held to? Laws are written by politicians, some of the dumbest people in our society, heavily influenced by the wealthy. Laws are enforced only at the lowest levels, against people just struggling to survive to "protect the social order" it might as well be the Indian caste system. Laws are wildly unfair and applied excessively to the average person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sympathetic if you're living off the grid and don't use public infrastructure. But the "sovereign citizens" that we usually hear about have already implicitly accepted the social contract and are now trying to weasel out of the consequences. The license plates that say "private; no license required" are just utter balogna.

That said, I'm completely in support of nonviolent resistance against unjust laws. But most sovereign citizens, in my estimation, are not protesting in support of any higher cause.