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Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Auster@lemm.ee 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Short version I wrote for another news piece but that, to my understanding, should apply for this too:

The text is obtuse and the article’s title and cover are pretty clickbaity, so here’s a tl;dr:
In the US, according to the article, it’s possible to lend multiple forms of digital medias and software as you’d do with physical medias. But when requested to extend this understanding to games too, the US Copyright Office denied the change.