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Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 day ago by iN8sWoRLd@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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"Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office dealt them a heavy blow Friday. Feds declared that you or any researcher has no right to access old games under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA."

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. What about federal police?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just police, there's not really any policing entity above just regular police.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So every police officer can go and answer every call?

Over here we have police zones, and police officers patrol their own zone and handle the issues of their own zone (as long as no outside backup is required). Then we have the federal police that handle national issues and stuff like murders.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The police is called "polismyndigheten" which is a governmental organisation where all police staff (both civilians and no civilians) are employed (with some exceptions like the "security police" which is a fully separate organisation).

And no, a police from the Stockholm police won't patrol in a city on the other side of the country. There are police districts and such but it's still the same organisation. You could probably get transferred to the other side of the country, but that would obviously be a bad idea unless the employee is moving anyways. I suspect the union might have something to say if they decide to transfer people wherever for no reason.

Except in informal settings the police is only called the police. For example police cars only say "Police" and never "Stockholm police" or similar.

But there are obviously some specialised divisions/groups within the organisation that are only present in one place (probably Stockholm). A very small police station in a small town could very well be investigating murder but I suspect they will likely want help from some other station or specialist division if the case is complex.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Have they removed the county mark on the side?

It was a while since I saw a police car, but I remember seeing "Stockholms Län" on the side

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't seen one in a while either, but looking at images it does indeed appear that there are no region markings on the cars.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

I had a look on the instragrsm account blåljusbilder, and you are right, there isn't any markings for regions/counties on the cars, it might have been a period when they tried it but realized it wouldn't work for some reason