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The Video Game History Foundation’s fight for game preservation isn’t over

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Video Game History Foundation expresses its regret that the US Copyright Office’s refused to grant an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to help preserve video games.

The VGHF had been a longtime supporter of the Software Preservation Network's petition to receive a for the sake of preserving video games, especially for researchers who need access to them and can’t do so due to unavailability.

The only currently legal way is to get a legitimate hard or soft copy of the game and play it on its corresponding console.