Video game publishers simply do not want games with shut down servers to ever be resurrected. It doesn't matter how much you love the games or how much time you invested into the games — they do not want you to modify games and reconnect them to third-party servers.
Hackers have been able to take games with shutdown servers and resurrect them with a third-party server. In light of this the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is looking to be exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so that hackers can continue resurrecting servers.
The Entertainment Software Association – the association that represents companies that publish computer and video games like Sony and Microsoft – is looking to keep that from happening. The ESA has stated that “The proposed exemption would jeopardize the availability of these copyrighted works by enabling—and indeed encouraging—the play of pirated games and the unlawful reproduction and distribution of infringing content.”
The EFF is coming from a good place, say you want to play World of Warcraft Titanfall or Elder Scrolls Online after their servers shut down (one day), if they don't resurrect the servers then it will never be an option.
[PC Gamer]
