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Originally Posted by The Legal Thing
(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
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First of all, this clause was intended to apply only in the case that a console system or operating system became impossible to obtain. When this occurs, it becomes legal, yes; however, JJ1 does not apply to this clause. Computers that can run it are reasonably available. I am using one right now. It is a 3GHz machine that is currently running Jazz 1. A patch is required. If you were right, that would mean the instant a game was patched, it would become legal to distribute. This is simply not true. I am sorry, but JJ1 is still quite illegal.
~ Traft
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