[acuozzo]

> Selfish for following the law and respecting the wishes of the authors of a work?

Shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire

Happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_MGM_vault_fire

If something is truly culturally significant then it should be preserved regardless of the wish(es) of its author(s) and these two hyperlinks rather easily make the case that preservation requires distribution.

[corobo]

1937 and 1967? I'd hope Blizzard have figured out some sort of offsite backup in the past almost century.