[Image Description]: A meme in the style of anti-piracy ads stating the following:

You wouldn’t pirate a game you already paid for to be able to play it again since the company stopped supporting it and no longer sells it

  • @Xenon
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    4 months ago

    How come copyright owners are not legally required to distribute their work?

    Copyright is supposedly a deal society strikes with creatives: They create art for society and in return the law ensures that they profit off of their original works. If they no longer uphold their end of the bargain how come the rest of us should still uphold their copyright? If they no longer make their works available their copyright should be forfeit automatically.

    • @yamanii
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      114 months ago

      Good observation, never thought of it. It’s like some people already said: if libraries came after copyright they would say it’s communism and publishers would sue everyone