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21 days agoBingo.
It invites hatred from a sizeable (though perhaps potentially less politically-aware) fan base that might otherwise be receptive.
Using someone as popular as Swift as a target for less-pop-culture-interested folks who are politically informed is clearly kicking the hornets’ nest to stir up in-fighting among the working class.
Next time use Bezos or one of the other folks who showed up in that “Dialog” secret society since they also use private jets in the same way someone like Swift does, but in addition are far worse in every other way and who also lobby with their billions towards worsening the world in every way imaginable.
No.
It should just be illegal.
If Nintendo decided to make your original SNES Earthbound cartridge now worth $$$$s suddenly stop working and just had to pay you the inflation adjusted cost you bought it for, they’d still be ripping you off.
Here’s what I want to do :
Make it illegal for a company owning an IP to do any action that hampers product functionality of any kind, even if “ceasing” action causes a hamper to that functionality.
The only CAVEAT that should be allowed is a game having a MODE that the company supports in which they provide an “official” e-sports competition circuit server you can connect to if you want to compete in an official capacity.
They should be able to sell you the game, and if it is centered around multi-player gameplay, it should work at a basic level with open community-hosted networked gaming support.
Additionally, any company that owns a game should be required to submit a source code version of it to the government to act as a “patent” to the game’s source code and copyright. No submission? No valid piracy case can be pursued.
Owner company goes out of business?
Company loses game patent / copyright and the game’s source becomes publicly freely available.
New company buys the IP and fails to support all functionality originally in the game from the original owner company?
Game code is publicly released and you lose the ability to pursue piracy cases.
If you don’t do something this comprehensive, the real problem is - what if a company goes out of business or sells to some other entity?
Corporations do this already in many industries in order to shirk responsibilities to repair issues or do recalls of broken products.
They do it with digital movies, they do it with John Deere hardware, they’ll do it with anything they are not fully required to do that they can weasel out of… so make the barrier to entry to even have ACCESS to the consumer market such that even doing nothing means the company risks losing ownership and enforceable copyright.