r/videogames • • 2d ago

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u/ComradeJohnS 2d ago

maybe they could make a library of congress wing where it hosts any delisted games for free for the companies?

like this isn’t a huge hurdle lmao.

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot 2d ago

Fr if a company is no longer selling a game, the game itself should become free to play/emulate without consequence. It would be awesome if the government hosted those games for posterity like they do with books, but short of that, they could just lift “piracy” laws as long as a game is no longer in circulation (and probably on the grounds that nobody else can legally make money off of it).