• maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s one possible solution for one of the problems under the same umbrella. If you can’t or don’t want to run the servers for your online game (eg: Echo VR), just open source the server’s code and let the community keep the game running.

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      24 hours ago

      You don’t need to open source the code to release the server binaries.

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      But even then it’s astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced. Old games will be grandfathered in and it would apply only to future game releases.

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        9 hours ago

        But even then it’s astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced

        It’s not unlikely, it’s literally impossible.