this is where piracy shines, as ironic as it is the pirate's ability to disable, if not remove entirely, the DRM and make a game running without it is the exact thing we want at this situation.<br><br>maybe it's time to change the public view about piracy as it's clear there are new dangers on the horizon, and they have the tools and skills to provide a solution to this new problem.,(reply>), Pirates have done more for game preservation than publishers ever would.,(reply>), I agree, but I feel that piracy is a way wider spectrum of people then just guys cracking games to make them free. Of course there are the archiving ones, who agree with us that abandonware should not be treated as the blessed copyrighted material of the owner who doesn't even care to use the name in the future and should be treated differently, but there are also people who enjoy the challenge. I watched a video once about people racing each other to see who can break the copy protection of a console game if I remember correctly, because it was sooo overdone. Even if it is illegal I feel like I could have a great chat with such guys. And since I am not exactly in the community, who knows what subsets of people there are.<br>But on the other hand you can never know when a company may take notice and sue. It feels like it has gotten to a point where companies own just the most random of things just so they could sue, as if it was their only income. It must be really hard to try and archive games knowing you're walking on a minefield and one is quite enough to ensure you never walk again.<br>I definitely do not support illegal copying and free uncontrolled spreading of content of their rightful and righteous owners without their direct permission...(I may or may not be saying this while held at gunpoint)<br><br>Also sorry for the rant...,(reply>), ​@Yaya no, and that problem is an interesting one to tackle as the code that's running on your device right now could be found to be dangerous in one form or another.<br><br>a simple solution is running a VM, for older games even a fraction of a modern PC's power is capable of doing the job so the VM's performance loss is neglectable.<br>for more demanding games, native VMs exist.,(reply>), This is why GoG is pretty much doing a public service by selling DRM free only games, even if they might sometimes falter on that commitment every once in a while.,(reply>), Piracy doesn't fix future compatibility issues though