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Someone really needs to deal with abandon-ware in copyright laws.
1000%.
Way back when fbxl was powerusrs gaming in the late 1990s, one of the few articles I wrote on there was saying basically the same thing even back then. It isn't good for society to be chasing down $300 boxed copies of games just to see a slice of history.
It should be like trademark: use it or lose it.
I'm ok with old games being sold, btw. There was a time I owned every game on gog on principle. (Today there's too much to possibly lol)
Yup, abandonware is one of the consequence of insane copyright laws.
One could argue that current copyright terms are practically "perpetual" beyond most human lifespan.