IDSA Forces Arcade Game Manual Archive Offline

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 22, 2003 @08:19AM from the legal-scrooge dept.

AtariKee writes "The IDSA and the DMCA has struck again, this time forcing the maintainer of Stormaster.com, a coin-operated video game manual and tech information archive, to shut down. Stormaster has been an invaluable resource for collectors of classic coin-operated video games for years, and this loss further demonstrates the idiocy that is the DMCA. I can understand ROM images to some extent, but 25 year old coin-op operator/tech manuals? The full text of the IDSA's letter can be read on Stormaster's site." Previous Slashdot posts about IDSA (Interactive Digital Software Association) show that this is typical of the organization.

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looking at the letter... by parliboy · 2003-06-22 08:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Wow, I didn't know Tron 2.0 was in the arcade!

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Come on people... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-22 08:41 · Score: 4, Funny

The guy was distributing game manuals for Dig Dug and Frogger... when you read 20-year old video game manuals, you're reading COMMUNISM!
Coin-op... what? by wirelessbuzzers · 2003-06-22 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny

a coin-operated video game manual and tech information archive

Instructions
1) Select manuals to be read.
2) Insert coin(s) to buy time.
3) To extend time, press the red button and insert more coins... ... and don't you dare post a ??? PROFIT!!! joke after this...

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I hereby place the above post in the public domain.