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253 points MYEUHD | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.535s | source
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VonGuard ◴[02 Jul 25 17:57 UTC] No.44446827[source]▶
This is one of the few places where the USA has a sensible solution. In 2015, my org (Themade.org) worked with Archive.org, MIT, the EFF, and Harvard Law to obtain a DMCA 1201 exemption for legal DRM circumvention for the case of single player games where online validation servers have ceased operations.

Thanks to the hard work of these organizations, the US market, at least, allows for those who purchased these games to continue to play them with a third party patch to their client. See below:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/new-dmca-ss1201-exempt...

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xela79 ◴[03 Jul 25 11:33 UTC] No.44453932[source]▶
> continue to play them with a third party patch to their client

so hoping that a third party patch can fix the issue. hoping it does. sounds like a very hopeless "legal" workaround

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VonGuard ◴[03 Jul 25 15:24 UTC] No.44456014[source]▶
Happens ALL the time. Players even figure out how to emulate MMO servers by sniffing network traffic. When people want to play the game, they will find a way.
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1. xela79 ◴[04 Jul 25 07:45 UTC] No.44462159[source]▶
I'm not saying it does not "happen ALL the time", but this proposed EU law would make that job easier for the third party solutions, instead of "hoping" for one.