Post by Skelly on Dec 4, 2006 21:11:06 GMT -5
sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/12/usa-legalizes-abandonware.html
Just recently....Abandonware has become legal to an extent in the US.
could this end the illegalness of ROMs? maybe.
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.
Just recently....Abandonware has become legal to an extent in the US.
could this end the illegalness of ROMs? maybe.
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.
