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There's a growing concern right now that most classic games we grew up on will be impossible to preserve for future players. DRM software, out-of-date hardware, and licensing issues will make it extremely difficult for historians to study these titles - especially once servers providing access shut down. That's why the Electronic Frontier Foundation proposed an exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, allowing anyone to alter games to make them playable when publisher support ends.

Sound great? One problem: The Entertainment Software Association - alongside the MPAA and RIAA - are opposing the exemption on the basis that hacking game files encourages illegal piracy.