![]() ![]() The petition stated that libraries, archives, and museums continue to need the exemption to preserve and curate video games in playable form. No oppositions were filed against readoption of this exemption, and Consumer Reports submitted a comment in support of the renewal petition. > SPN and LCA petitioned to renew the exemption for preservation of video games for which outside server support has been discontinued. Computer Programs - Video Game Preservation > Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies Well, funny you should mention it because this came out less than a month ago: > or a legally-mandated exception to breaking DRM for preservation grounds. ![]() there isn't a good PS4 emulator yet) - but there's a definite false narrative behind this. I'm glad they're making the argument - the preservation of our culture is hugely important, and emulation is a good way to do it, particularly if industry sponsored (I think it's a shame that, e.g. New Xbox consoles require an internet connection at least once to "activate" and play games – meaning any unsold will become e-waste once the servers shut down ). This is clearly incompatible with recording history (and also produces lots of errors like "this game isn't ready yet" – utter tosh. Microsoft's DRM on their latest xbox is insane – they actively consider the customer hostile at every available opportunity, have essentially always-online DRM, including for physical discs and have had senior architects giving talks explaining how the "only" way to make a games console is to have a physically secure enclave in a chip with a truly unique root of trust, a very strict hardware watchdog, engineered resistance to under/overvoltage or clocking techniques and literally everything, including all buses and IO, encrypted to the nines. The cynic in me thinks that this is because they've realised that the options are either a loss of history, an industry-sponsored scheme, or a legally-mandated exception to breaking DRM for preservation grounds. ![]()
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