Last month, the Software Preservation Network (SPN) made arguments in support of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act amendment that would allow libraries to bypass digital locks on video games so that academics and credentialed researchers could study them. But the games industry is fighting back.
That doesn’t seem to be the argument being made, though. It’s not “I need to emulate to do my job as an academic”, it’s “academic institutions can’t bypass DRM or make games remotely accessible for academic purposes”, emulation or no emulation.
Which in turn is a big part of your second statement.
The headline mentions emulation, and it certainly is the most effortless way to stream access to a different location, which is what the proposal is about, but that’s not the focus of the argument. The argument is about remote access for academic purposes.
That doesn’t seem to be the argument being made, though. It’s not “I need to emulate to do my job as an academic”, it’s “academic institutions can’t bypass DRM or make games remotely accessible for academic purposes”, emulation or no emulation.
Which in turn is a big part of your second statement.
The headline mentions emulation, and it certainly is the most effortless way to stream access to a different location, which is what the proposal is about, but that’s not the focus of the argument. The argument is about remote access for academic purposes.