DRM free games are a part of the solution. Not the entire solution, but if the software is DRM free that's usually an acknowledgement by the publisher that they know you want to own the software forever. If a game is multiplayer, being able to host your own server, or at least play over a LAN, is another important feature.<br><br>But the final and most important piece to the puzzle is copyright laws. The term limit of copyright NEEDS to be reduced very significantly so that people can legally modify abandoned software and get it working for modern computers. Most games make the majority of their sales in the first year of release, and 5 years after release their sales are largely irrelevant. There are exceptions, particularly for games which have continual updates, but that's how it is for most of them. So having a copyright term of 10 years, for example, really won't harm most of games publishers out there. And if you include an exception for games that are still being actively sold and supported, I don't think there would be any significant harm to any game company. But it would mean that many of these old, abandoned games might be allowed to come back to life.