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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Video games Europe - Seriously?
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 15:09:15 +0100
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On 08/07/2025 14:39, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 7/8/2025 1:27 AM, JAB wrote:
>> On 08/07/2025 01:30, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> Re your last paragraph above, will NEVER happen.  If a publisher goes 
>>> defunct, it goes thru bankruptcy proceedings and all the DRM keys and 
>>> code are _assets_.  So can't be just given away, they would have to 
>>> be distributed to creditors or sold to pay off creditors.  And 
>>> forcing a company to distribute against their will effectively 
>>> destroys the entire concept of "private property".
>>
>> If a single player game that uses an online DRM server is no longer 
>> usable because the company has gone tits up what about the loss of my 
>> property. Does that not matter, why is it that the consumer is always 
>> last in the pecking order?
> 
> The EULA you signed says it isn't your property.
> 
Well that's ok then. Maybe you could sign one that says they can sell 
one of your kidneys?