Preservationists propose access limits, but industry worries about a free "online arcade."
  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I would be all in favor of “Use it or lose it” rights to Digital Distribution… Don’t offer a reasonable way to access a product? Can’t bitch when Abandonware sites give it away for nothing.

    • Feydaikin@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      There is an expiration date for IP. But I have little idea what type it goes under.

      I just assume the reason old, barely functional games get the odd 1.3kb update every once in a blue moon is to “refresh” that expiration date.