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In the US, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal to circumvent copy protection, even for archival purposes. The Librarian of Congress grants exemptions every three years, but the language is narrow.

Information at the start and end of the disc. redump

, ensuring that every bit of data—from the game files to the specific disc structures—is preserved exactly as it appeared on the original retail media. Why Redump Matters In the US, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The project's name comes from its central rule: a disc must be dumped at least twice by different people to be marked as "verified" in the database. If two independent users get the exact same checksum (hash) from their physical copies, the dump is considered a perfect digital replica. No ROM Hosting: , ensuring that every bit of data—from the

: The website does not host game files (ISOs/ROMs). Instead, it provides .dat files—metadata catalogs containing hashes (like CRC32, MD5, SHA-1) that users use with tools like RomVault or CLRMAMEPro to verify their own files. Project Scope and Achievements Redump.org

The reality is that without Redump, thousands of Japanese PC-98 discs, obscure PS1 demo kiosk discs, and Taiwanese "Hack" PS2 releases would already be lost forever.