Abandonware should have the same legal status as anything else that's been thrown away in the garbage: free for anyone else to take and use. The company that owns it has voluntarily rid themselves of it and should not have a say in what happens to it after that point. We also need laws to ensure that buying a videogame gives the buyer ownership over that copy.<br><br>This is why I never throw away or sell physical copies of any video game I have bought over the years. I have a cupboard full of probably 50 old CD-ROM games in my living room. After your Rings of Power video I reinstalled my copy of BFME2 and even with the physical discs I had to jump through hoops to get it working. First, it can't run on modern systems so I have to use XP compatibility mode but doing that makes the computer think there's no disc inserted when trying to run the game, so I had to scour the internet for a 3rd party patch that lets the game run without a disc. And then on top of all that, because Windows 10 is hellbent on not letting people fully use their computers, in order to install the patch I had to go to a folder that is unreachable by simply clicking through the game files and had to manually type in the specific folder address in the file explorer.