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>No one has a right to use anyone else's software. I don't have a right to use Windows 3.1 in my lifetime. I don't have a right to play some random game from the 90s that only had 100 copies made. It's okay for software to be unavailable or be lost.

If you replace software with book, music or movie, would you still claim that? That would kill a lot of culture and cultural studies. Are software that different? More specifically, are games that different?

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Yes, I would still say that. Cultures naturally have a lifecycle which yes, does include dying.

In other words, you don't care about preservation, which makes the rest of your arguments moot.

If you think copyright is a goal rather than a means for culture, then you're wrong and everything you say stems from something misguided.

I care about preservation, but my care for preservation does not place it above the law.

Law and morality are two different things. When the law stands in the way of good, it should be ignored in the moment and reformed to be better.

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