Classic Video Game Crackdown

Shawn Stamps writes " Here's a link from AltaVista's main page generalizing recent trends in crackdowns by copyright holders of classic arcade games, forcing sites like Dave's Classics to remove ROM images or be shut down. Maybe not new, somewhat disturbing, and definitely significant to those (like me) who really like what MAME et al has done for the 'oldies'." What do you think about this? For instance, I have been searching for over a year for a copy of Sowa's 1984 CGT book. It's out of print, and Amazon can't find a copy. It would be illegal for me to photocopy the library's copy, yet I need it for long periods of time and would be happy to buy it. Should copyright owners' rights extend to making people's lives difficult if they don't wish to print the book anymore?

update Thanks to all of you that told me where I could buy it.