I think there are more factors at play in this situation. This is a case where even if you wanted to pay money to continue or start playing a game, you can't b

I think there are more factors at play in this situation. This is a case where even if you wanted to pay money to continue or start playing a game, you can't because someone else simply doesn't want you to. This is a consumer-hostile shift from earlier days where if you owned the disk, disc or cartridge and a computer that could play it, you could play the game, no questions asked. I think it's always worth fighting against consumer hostile shifts. Some people are collectors as much as they are gamers. A license (or whatever) is less valuable to a collector than a game.