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Re:Why I'm a Pirate by ThomPete on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:37AM (#3483694)
The same thing that happens when a game gets discontinued today.
Re:Why I'm a Pirate by jiggy2011 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @04:01AM (#3483728)
That's not true at all, I have a large collection of games dating from around 1990 to present on my shelves. Assuming I can find the disks (most of them are in the wrong boxes) I can re-install any of them and play right now (ok I might have to install dosbox for some of them not to mention find a floppy drive).

That's only true currently for games that are only playable via a single central online service (e.g WoW etc) and that's sort of dictated by the game format itself.

What I mean is a world where all games are video streamed to you even if they are single player only.

Re:Why I'm a Pirate by ThomPete on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:52AM (#3484078)
Sorry but you are just being silly now. We are talking about the current and future.

You know times change.

Anyway. I made my point already.

Re:Why I'm a Pirate by jiggy2011 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:21AM (#3484171)
Your point as I understand it is that you would find it preferable for content creators not to distribute at all rather than distribute with copyright?