• cryptiod137@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    As in, the publisher has stopped them preserving it otherwise, so now the publisher must make it accessible somehow?

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      3 months ago

      Exactly. If you implement DRM that will make the software unusable if it can’t phone home, you should be legally required to have a plan in place for when your servers shut down.

      MMO servers get a bit more complicated since they often rely on third-party components that aren’t releasable.