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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Video games Europe - Seriously?
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 07:29:34 -0700
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On 7/8/2025 7:09 AM, JAB wrote:
> 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?

Make that "force you to sell one of your kidneys" and it would be closer 
to reality.  Ownership is not just to ability/right TO sell but also the 
ability/right to NOT sell.  If you don't have both you don't own it.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.