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EA Will Shut Down Online Servers For These 12 Games By The End Of The Year (www.gamespot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

and you officially relinquish the copyright. I think that’s a very fair tradeoff

Indeed. Specifically, if a company wants to benefit from society-funded copyright enforcement, then society must get something worthy of the cost. In this case, that's the cultural enrichment brought by the game. If the game vanishes, then the company hasn't held up their end of the deal.