It seems like free software concepts are the only possible option here. Who is going to host the multiplayer servers? Who will distribute old patches? Who will

It seems like free software concepts are the only possible option here. Who is going to host the multiplayer servers? Who will distribute old patches? Who will remove their drm when their licensing agreements require it? Who will distribute the old drivers and the microcode blobs? The users need source code access and the ability to modify those systems so they can do this themselves. They need the right to distribute it. Copyright protection needs to be shortened dramatically to make this possible. Imagine books with drm that nobody can open with updates that change the entire meaning that nobody will share, and no ability to reproduce the book if the papers start to fall apart. Books that nobody is able to read without connecting to some drm server, and where if you try to, you are committing a crime - it would be a loss on the scale of the famous ancient book burning events Ie, we need to be allowed to own things in some sense again, not just license them under unintelligible and constantly changing and one sided, non negotiable terms