I wrote some things, I had a few Geocities web pages, I worked on some DOS Games, I wrote some games in Commodore 64 BASIC, I helped make text files for a commu

I wrote some things, I had a few Geocities web pages, I worked on some DOS Games, I wrote some games in Commodore 64 BASIC, I helped make text files for a community college BBS in 1989. All of which got used without my permission. I never saw one penny for such things. But I see how it works now, I don't own my own works, and they are free to be copied and put on display for others to use for free. In the early 1970's and 1980's there was still a 'fair use' clause in copyright. For non-commercial use, for educational use, for parody/satire, etc. The DMCA changed that so after 1999 copyright law and IP law was more strict. That is why you could have a game in BASIC named Star Trek and not have Paramount care that you did. That is why there were several versions of the old BBS game Tradewars, originally written in BASIC for a TRS-80, and then converted to IBM BASICA, and then in Turbo Pascal, and then Tradewars 2002. Because all of that was done before the DMCA passed. I can tell by the downvotes that the community here does not care about permission and encourages the copying and saving of older material as some sort of library. Stuff I worked on as side projects way back in the day, appear to be part of Archive.org and other sites. Yet nobody cares. Will the side projects people write today get copied and saved in the same way? Will all of the time we spend on working on side projects go to support some archive site?