It’s great that many games have strong online components, but there’s a dark side to that connectedness: if the developers (or their partners) shut down necessary servers, those titles are likely to break. You won’t have to worry about your favorite game going dark if the Electronic Frontier Foundation has its way, however. The liberty-minded advocacy group has filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act exemption request with the Library of Congress that would give Americans the right to keep online play alive in old, abandoned games by modifying the code to point to unofficial services.
