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Products no longer available to buy should fall into public domain.
WB are an absolute cancer. Suicide Squad fails spectacularly due to being a multiplayer live service game that nobody asked for, and their immediate response is to go all in on multiplayer live service games.
Because heaven forbid the executives could be fucking wrong.
If I can’t buy it, I will pirate it with zero moral issues.
I own over 1000 DVDs and a couple hundred BluRays, but will pirate anything that gets removed from streaming or isn’t available in my region for some shitty licensing reasons.
If you have a legitimate copy of Dogma (1999), put it into a fireproof safety box. That is a collectors item already, as they pulled production of the DVD copies after a rather limited run.
Nice! I've got the 2 Disc collector edition DVD set.
Harvey Weinstein is 71. As soon as he's dead, Kevin Smith will buy the rights and you'll be able to buy it.
https://youtu.be/2_DOt1aHjhs?si=bM-2CphP8NDzGeRd
Akira Toriyama died at 68 and Rupert Mudoch is still alive at 92. Don't assume Kevin will outlast piece of shit Weinstein.
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Look, I'm not outright disagreeing with your first point. I think going that way will be a massive legal headache for just about every business.
Mainly because of patents, copyright, and all the BS, but that's a whole other thing. I'm mainly thinking about software.
New software v1.0 is released and then updated to v1.1? Is it a new product? If so, does that mean that v1.0 should be free if they only offer the updated version? What constitutes software not being available in a legal sense?
This is not a matter of versions. If the content is not available for purchase then the only choice is piracy. But at what point does piracy end and it just become public domain (not even legally just them not giving a fuck to go after anyone)
But the version does matter. We all have a game that was updated that either broke it, removed content, or changed it so drastically that it's like a completely different game. And if the older versions aren't available, but the game is still being sold.... should the older version be public domain whole the current version is being sold?
These are important questions.