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Yeah Im going to chime in right there, his opinion is relevant. You cant just cut off a release an expect everybody to stop experiencing it. IMHO this is simil
by trinsic2 3y ago
Yeah Im going to chime in right there, his opinion is relevant.
You cant just cut off a release an expect everybody to stop experiencing it. IMHO this is similar to books that go out of print. People might go to different methods to obtain copies. It's the publishers/developers fault if they loose out on money if they are not making their works available. Plus many developers let works expire deliberately to attempt to force people to other options that serves only ulterior motives. Copyright was only valuable to protect a work for a limited time. Many publishers and developers are using the extension of copyright way past its public benefit. People forget that commercialism is meant to serve the public good, not the other way around. Rights as a commercial enterprise are limited by operating a private enterprise under strict guidelines that serve common good, hence the reason why we have charters. The fact that charters are no longer honored under the principals they were created for in the first place is another matter.
- Our_Benefactors 3y ago> You cant just cut off a release an expect everybody to stop experiencing it. Yes, you can. You own the product, you may choose to stop selling it. You also can’t mandate what formats a publisher makes their media available on.
- wtallis 3y ago> Yes, you can. You own the product, you may choose to stop selling it. "Stop selling it" isn't the same as making everybody "stop experiencing it". A publisher can choose to stop selling more copies, but they can't undo what they've already sold, and they have limited powers to control what people do with the copies they previously bought, and those powers have an expiration date—which may need to be moved closer to the present.