Current Events > US Copyright Office just legalized private MMO servers if the official one's ded

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Tyranthraxus
10/26/18 9:40:43 AM
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https://www.pcgamer.com/us-congress-deems-it-legal-to-circumvent-drm-to-repair-electronic-devices/

80 character limit is such a 90s thing

Basically the MMOs like City of Heroes which are shut down you can now legally run a private server for them.

Ruling starts on page 59 https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-23241.pdf
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Menardii
10/26/18 9:41:08 AM
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That's pretty cool, I think?
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Tyranthraxus
10/26/18 9:41:27 AM
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Menardii posted...
That's pretty cool, I think?

Extremely cool
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Veggeta X
10/26/18 9:41:54 AM
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Nice!!! What about profiting over them?
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steveoSEK
10/26/18 9:42:03 AM
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I played the fuck out of City of heroes back in the day. It did not age well, even near shutdown it was archaic.
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VectorChaos
10/26/18 9:42:49 AM
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Bitchin'
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Tyranthraxus
10/26/18 9:43:30 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
Nice!!! What about profiting over them?


Selling DRM circumvention methods was always legal. The reason you couldn't do it before is because of copyright infringement. Now, the copyright blockage is gone.
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Doom_Art
10/26/18 9:44:35 AM
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Imma play the fuck out of Matrix Online
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voldothegr8
10/26/18 9:45:13 AM
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You can also now legally repair your iPhone or John Deere equipment, and jailbreak voice assistants!

Of course I don't expect shitty Apple and John Deere to idly stand by and accept it.
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ExtremeLuchador
10/26/18 9:46:35 AM
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Was this the case that if it had gone wrong Americans wouldn't legally own their cars anymore because of the computers inside them?
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Tyranthraxus
10/26/18 9:46:36 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
You can also now legally repair your iPhone or John Deere equipment, and jailbreak voice assistants!

Of course I don't expect shitty Apple and John Deere to idly stand by and accept it.


No it'll just get moved over to contract law and ban you but there isn't any concern about being banned from something like PSO1 if you still wanted to play that.
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Tyranthraxus
10/26/18 9:47:56 AM
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ExtremeLuchador posted...
Was this the case that if it had gone wrong Americans wouldn't legally own their cars anymore because of the computers inside them?

This was pretty much instigated by Apple.
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gikos
10/26/18 9:51:53 AM
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this also applies for non MMO games that have drm and the server is dead to confirm that the game is legit
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Veggeta X
10/26/18 9:53:24 AM
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Could you add and make your own content?
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
10/26/18 9:55:02 AM
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Wow. This is all kinds of awesome. Not just the private servers but the whole thing.
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Tyranthraxus
10/26/18 10:01:15 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
Could you add and make your own content?


As long as your content doesn't infringe on copyrights, sure. Like, I don't think you'll be able to add a modded SNES Emulator minigame into City of Heroes.
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