I agree, with a minor stipulation: there are a few games five years old or older that are still being sold. Warcraft II comes immediately to mind. I think your first line - "stuff you can no longer find" - says it best.
I have heard arguments that this restricts the company's options to re-release it, rather like Activision did with the old Infocom text adventures. All I can really say to that is, if I like a game enough that I'm using a cracked copy because I couldn't find a "legal" one and a new legal one is released, I'll buy it.
I think an octal switch would be more like "off", "almost off", "mostly off", "sorta off", "sorta on", "mostly on", "almost on", and "on" rather than an eight-position switch. Rather the hardware-equivalent of fuzzy logic, if you will.
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I agree, with a minor stipulation: there are a few games five years old or older that are still being sold. Warcraft II comes immediately to mind. I think your first line - "stuff you can no longer find" - says it best. I have heard arguments that this restricts the company's options to re-release it, rather like Activision did with the old Infocom text adventures. All I can really say to that is, if I like a game enough that I'm using a cracked copy because I couldn't find a "legal" one and a new legal one is released, I'll buy it.
I think an octal switch would be more like "off", "almost off", "mostly off", "sorta off", "sorta on", "mostly on", "almost on", and "on" rather than an eight-position switch. Rather the hardware-equivalent of fuzzy logic, if you will.