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I had a fantasy the other night about making it law that if a company stops selling a software product, "independent distributors" would be allowed to provide functional copies as a public service. The content owners would still own it, the "independent distributors" would not be allowed to profit directly from the items, and if the owner decides to start selling it again, it would need to be removed from the distribution repository so long as it is being sold for a reasonable price with reasonable availability.
Essentially, I want to make ROMs legal to distribute when gaming companies decide they don't want to sell it anymore. Why the fuck is 95% of the NES catalog illegal to obtain. And they can stuff their shit about "losing money" on it. They aren't selling it, they aren't making money.