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Can't +rep you, as I have to spread my lovin' around first, so +1, well said. Kind of what I wanted to say as well; we've seen media and services die before, and in spite of that, it's still alive somewhere. New movies aren't released on betamax, but you do still find players and people who love the medium enough to use it. Likewise vinyl, and DOS-based games. We've even seen MMO's die, but live on after death, like Star Wars Galaxies.

It's inevitable.

I do, however, disagree slightly about calling what you described piracy, but I think that may be getting out of the bounds of this topic.
Haha... Thanks and I know what you mean but that will always "officially" been seen as piracy. I like to think of it as the media we loved living on for new generations to play.

But that's also why I really dig GOG--it makes old games affordable, they adapt the games for modern operating systems and they give us a small way to show that there is still demand for many of those titles.

I wish that consoles had a similar service but that's what I kind of hope we'll see with a greater interest in online distribution and cloud computing: that the games we buy still being playable in the future.