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February 22, 2018 12:10 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MzpsBv9huPk/game-industry-pushes-back-against-efforts-to-restore-gameplay-servers
Game Industry Pushes Back Against Efforts To Restore Gameplay Servers
Kyle Orland reports via Ars Technica: A group of video game preservationists wants the legal right to replicate "abandoned" servers in order to re-enable defunct online multiplayer gameplay for study. The game industry says those efforts would hurt their business, allow the theft of their copyrighted content, and essentially let researchers "blur the line between preservation and play." Both sides are arguing their case to the U.S. Copyright Office right now, submitting lengthy comments on the subject as part of the Copyright Register's triennial review of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Analyzing the arguments on both sides shows how passionate both industry and academia are about the issue, and how mistrust and misunderstanding seem to have infected the debate.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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