Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive

Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by beefhash on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:10PM (#14126718)

> Following deliberation, the Copyright Office ruled in late October 2003 that four exemptions should be added to the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA, to be valid until the next Copyright Office rulemaking in 2006, including two that are related to the Internet Archive's original comments: [...]

It's past 2006 now. This text seems outdated. Furthermore, it states:

> In 2003 the Internet Archive, as part of research into vintage software archiving, discovered possible archiving issues involving the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. This could make it impossible to legally archive early computer software and games, even for accredited institutions wishing to store limited amounts of non-distributable, archival images.

I don't believe we're looking at "non-distributable archival images" here.

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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by toomuchtodo on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:26PM (#14126795)

I suppose we'll just need to wait for someone to sue the Internet Archive and have the EFF step in.

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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by j_koreth on Sunday April 16, 2017 @05:12PM (#14127545)

I'm not sure if even the EFF can rationally justify the amount of copyrighted materials on there.

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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by H4CK3RM4N on Sunday April 16, 2017 @11:56PM (#14129130)

I think the sheer quantity of really valuable copyright-free things on there would be a pretty good case.

This is one of my favourite things on the internet: https://archive.org/details/EALand_FinalCountdown

And it would probably vanish in a few years without something like archive.org.

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