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kevin_thibedeau • yesterday at 9:31 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

For the US, DMCA bans circumvention devices. It is possible to argue that emulators run afoul of this provision.


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bawolff • yesterday at 10:31 PM

Note that there is the following exception to dmca circumvention provision:

"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."

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actionfromafar • yesterday at 10:10 PM

DMCA is so weird. Anything can be a circumvention device. XOR. Harsh wording with an if then.

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