Every game that shuts down their servers should enter public domain or at least the server code should.
We’ve lost so much of gaming history because of games being completely inaccessible because the company has decided to kill a game for one reason or another.Absolutely. Customers (at least the way the marketing is phrased) “buy” a game, and then the dev can revoke their access when it’s no longer financially convenient. There is no way this is fair.
Wow, this post is very relatable in the parts that talk about how “just because I think children shouldn’t exclusively eat McDonalds, doesn’t mean I want them to starve.” It really feels as though a lot of arguments for everything and a lot of hatred comes from knee-jerk emotional reactions and a refusal to listen to the other side of arguments.
It’s like if someone asks you about your lifestyle and health, and you tell them you’re vegan/vegetarian, everyone who hears you loses their minds. However, if you try explaining your diet without using those terms, they’ll come to some wild conclusion on how you’re so fit, like, “ohh you must do crossfit! That’s why you’re so fit!”
It’s like people refuse to hear what they don’t want to hear, and if you dare say something that threatens their fragile world view that it’s perfectly healthy to have McDonalds once a week, they absolutely lose their minds. I feel like doctors see this more than anyone. Tell someone that they need to cut back on the cheeseburgers and reduce/quit smoking because they’ve already had two heart attacks and they freak out worse than a misbehaving five year old in a public place.
I mean, I agree with this point, that our current copyright system is glaringly broken in favor of corporations, but I worry about how your “hamburgers and smoking” metaphor might have unintended implications. Depending on someone’s level of poverty, time constraints, and location, not eating McDonalds might actually be synonymous with starving.
Similarly, smoking is a substance addiction, and victims’ minds are neurologically not in a place to logically consider quitting.
This isn’t a “fragile world view”, this is a matter of one’s understanding of someone else’s life being orthogonal to reality.
For instance, I personally don’t think copyright/patents/IP protection (beyond an attribution requirement similar to the BSD licenses) should exist at all, but under capitalism it’s the only way artists don’t starve, so I wouldn’t advise abolishing it without fixing our societal support structures first.
I wasn’t using hamburgers and smoking as a metaphor for copyright, I was going on a rant about peoples lifestyles, particularly those of my peers, who aren’t poor. This rant is very literal. I’m just letting out my frustrations.
