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One doesn't need DRM to shut down a server and keep the assets/ net code from seeing the light of day. Plenty of MMOs have shut down with years of people's live
by Dracophoenix 6y ago
One doesn't need DRM to shut down a server and keep the assets/ net code from seeing the light of day. Plenty of MMOs have shut down with years of people's lives down the drain. Even if you were right about how companies with DRM shouldn't obtain copyrights, I don't see how uncrackability of DRM would be a significant limiting factor when an off switch and forgotten source code is just as capable in doing the same. It wouldn't solve the fundamental issue of, to quote you, theft from the public domain.
- CamperBob2 6y agoThat's a separate question (but equally worth addressing). The point here, though, is that copyright is an explicit bargain with the public domain, and DRM makes it a one-sided one.