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Anteaterking posted...

You've essentially just restated your opinion. Pre-digital era (and even still now), publishers frequently disposed of excess physical copies of cartridges/cd-roms when they decided they were no longer going to be selling them. If you went dumpster diving sans trespassing for one of those cartridges, you would now own a copy of the game, but that would not revoke the rights/ownership of the publisher to that intellectual property.

The comparison to grave robbing is ridiculous. Robbing a grave is more akin to robbing a home. Things in graves aren't "abandoned" there, they're put in that grave for an express purpose with intent to stay there. Abandoning your software isn't the same thing, it's much closer to shipping your trash that you see no more value to.

Yes. I clarified my point because there's really nothing else to say on the matter. If a publisher wants you to have a game they will sell it. Or they will put it up to be legally downloaded for free, but they don't do these things. Halting a games production and distribution is conscious decision.

The dumpster diving scenario only makes sense if you're dumpster diving. That's a highly specific example considering there is a major difference between discarding something and halting production/distribution.

You do not own nor are you entitled to ownership, rights, or use of game unless you have legally purchased copy of the game. I understand if I sound repetitive, but that's only because this is a lot more black and white than others try to make it seem. There's only so much one can objectively say on the matter.

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