The fight to stop publishers from bricking your games and shutting down servers just got a powerful new enemy

[OortCloud]

Basically, you know you are doing something right when you p1ss off the current administration and political class in the US.

 

[KyleJCrb]

Can, but won't. Essentially, the entire server would have to be added to your install. Do you really think they want you to have their server? That's a security and IP nightmare!

There are hundreds of games with publicly-available server software for users to self-host their own without any issue. An end user hosting a server does not mean the original developer/publisher loses rights to the IP. If there are concerns about allowing self-hosted servers while the game is still online, then just wait to release the server software once the game reaches End of Life. It's really not that complicated.

 

[ZedRM]

The intention behind this movement is honorable. How they're doing it is less than smart.

Basically, you know you are doing something right when you p1ss off the current administration and political class in the US.

Some of us are loving this.

 

[tonylukac]

On a different subject of old, I wish Napster, with its 99 cent songs, had not ripped out it's servers so fast. They sold .wma song files with drm, saying you couldn't copy the songs to a new device without converting them to .mp3s by burning them to CDs and then ripping them back. Many people don't know how to do this and there are lossless problems too.