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Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin’s Creed games | Time to say goodbye::Ubisoft is ending online services for various titles, including Assassin’s Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Liberation.
You bring up a good argument. We can’t compel creators to maintain their creations.
But looking at the philosophy behind both patents, and copyright, the theory is by allowing artists and creators to monetize their labor, we enrich all of society by creating more value over the long term. But if the creations are ephemeral and disappear, society’s not actually benefiting.
It’s a bit of a stretch, but imagine if literature disappeared after 15 years, so that nobody could read a text once it’s old enough. We would have lost their creativity of the ages, mathematical, philosophical, engineering, historical treatise. We would have a massive gap in the knowledge of the world.
DRM, and online only platforms, are only going to become more common, so we have to examine what’s the benefit of giving people exclusive rights to creations from a society’s perspective… And I would say the exclusive rice are in exchange for the creation benefiting humanity after a period of time.
I do love when people submit opposition views without the sc-reeeeeee-ming match this place comes with.
My arguement back is that in this case the content creator didn’t/wasnt focused on entertainment, not long term advancement of society. Knowledge gained from development, society reaction and the change in society values and tastes should remain and be passed down - but we don’t need to keep every magazine, vine/tok/tweet/video game. Books pass knowledge and it would be horrible to lose them after 15 years but entertainment doest carry the same value to progress.
I see what you’re saying, but I’m on the fence, even for entertainment. All of Shakespeare’s works, are a form of entertainment, a base form of entertainment for the rabble even. But they’ve proven through an accident of history to have huge impacts today.
DRM platforms for scholastic texts for research publications for conference panels exist in abundance, and are only going to become more popular.
I think a reasonable split would be saying that you lose copyright when the original content is no longer active. A book is forever active, so the copyright exists for however long the law currently stipulates - 70 years?
For DRM content, including forced online games, I’m not saying the original creator needs to maintain anything, but if they don’t, the copyright should be on an accelerated expiration schedule.
I might be mullified, if electronic creators, have to file the source, the build objects, for electronic things, with a independent library. To follow the normal copyright expiration. That way it would break out of the shell of whatever the DRM enclave is after the 70 years or whatever.
If we examine the mission of the British library, they often talk about they don’t know what’s going to be critically important in the future, so they have to preserve everything. And I think that’s a reasonable position.