If a teenager comes to your house to ask for candy on Halloween you can just give them the candy because being a teenager is really fuckig hard and you literally bought the candy to hand it out to people.
@VanTheBrand@freedug@seanoconnz I’m not sure it goes that far. I think one can take the position that IP has no commercial value but that doesn’t forfeit their right to “protect” the IP. I’m not saying it’s the right outcome, but I think it’s (maybe?) unfortunately the way this would play out under US IP laws
@freedug@VanTheBrand@seanoconnz There are plenty that don’t get re-released though, yet developers are still successful at getting takedowns on those ROMs, too