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We need a digital consumer rights law. Companies should not be able to revoke data or software. Software and hardware that depend on external servers should car
by Causality1 6y ago
We need a digital consumer rights law. Companies should not be able to revoke data or software. Software and hardware that depend on external servers should carry "expiration date" labels that define the minimum amount of time the vendor is required to maintain those servers. People should be allowed to run their own servers for abandonware.
- m-p-3 6y ago> People should be allowed to run their own servers for abandonware. Especially those multiplayer-only games, that ultimately will vanish and a piece of gaming history becomes lost to time.
- WorldMaker 6y agoWe need a long think about digital survivorship: accounts/data should be able to be escrowed/put into Trusts for future generations. Most terms of service agreements are between you specifically and the company, and will not survive you. "Could I gift my account/purchases when I pass to my loved ones?" is currently "legally and/or technically no" on almost every digital goods service. Even if we have mostly given up on the more general "right of first sale" and "first sale doctrine" on digital goods (that we can resell purchases as "used"), survivorship should not be forgotten.