Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses

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tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Rights-holders can make these products available whenever they want. Nintendo added many old “abandonware” games to their subscription catalog that had been unavailable for much longer than ten years. If someone else is putting them out for free, they’re stealing Nintendo’s lunch.

There are very few cases where copyrighted material would have no owner and no legal mechanism to determine ownership.

Not saying I support the current system. I think current US copyright law is ridiculous and a net negative for our culture. Just clarifying that “Well, no one was selling it” is not a legally defensible position when it comes to copyrighted work.

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