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I don't think I have the full definition. But if you think about online games, it becomes abandonware if you can no longer log into the game servers? Or if yo

by SCHiM 5y ago

I don't think I have the full definition. But if you think about online games, it becomes abandonware if you can no longer log into the game servers? Or if your product is dependent on DRM, then is becomes abandonware when the DRM servers shut down. I think different classes of media will require different definitions of when they become abandonware, but I think we'll mostly know it when we see it.

dataflow 5y ago
Your definitions are better than what I was imagining, but I think they might still have rather significant edge cases & loopholes in reality. To give some examples off the top of my head: What if (say) access ends up varying across jurisdictions? What if they keep the servers running, but start charging for them? What if the company wants to sell to someone in another jurisdiction? etc.