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It's also the short benefit. If game companies abandon the IP and stop paying the money to maintain it, the community can continue to play it. As it is now, we
by SolarNet 9y ago
It's also the short benefit. If game companies abandon the IP and stop paying the money to maintain it, the community can continue to play it. As it is now, we will have to wait a hundred years to have rights to play some games. Even though the servers were taken down decades ago, and the companies have no intentions of supporting that software ever again.
- Spivak 9y agoCopyright doesn't in practice prevent 3rd party game servers and copyright expiration won't suddenly enable them. We're dealing with mostly closed source games for which the server code was never released.
- SolarNet 9y agoIt does actually. Blizzard has successfully pursued legacy WoW servers because of their usage of protocols, and an imitation of their copy righted content.