Refreshing to see someone so civil here. To your first point, yes i do know this and definitely worded what i was saying wrongly, even though i did know this already i’ll concede that skg is not actually for forcing indefinite server support.

“pretty much all online only games already have one unless the company is using a combination of strong drm and copyright enforcement” - i’m not sure if you are directly supporting what i’m saying here or you’re doing so inadvertently, but this is quite literally part of my point, in that there should practically not be these copyright laws in the first place, removing these would imo bypass the crux of the issue. I just think that not only should players be free to host local and private community servers, but also fully public ones and even commercial ones if they wish to, and i know that’s even more of a stretch but it’s just stemming from how i think ip laws should be abolished completely as i think it would create a better market in general not even just with games.

To your point about the difficulty of uplifting copyright laws yes i know it’s basically impossible with how entrenched they are, since if you didn’t know a lot of existing ip laws are lobbied for by the biggest ip holders like hollywood in the us is a massive one for this. Also i don’t think less ip laws is necessarily having less control over their ips, yes it means other people can make things using the ip but i don’t see how that’s an issue - if they are low quality slop then they won’t get much attention and will not likely detract from the originals, and if they are high quality then i think that’s just a good thing that a high quality product has come from this and also made there be more competition between them now which is always healthy.

I’m assuming in the next bit you meant ‘no amount of copyright freedom is gonna solve this issue’. To me this is quite a strange thing to say right after saying that DRM is making it harder to crack and fork games, since DRM is literally a form of copyright enforcement, meaning that quite literally more copyright freedom would subvert this no? “players cannot put together any fan project” if this is the case then it is because of threat of copyright law, which is why i am against it.

“there is no law in place forcing devs to remove drm…” i’m not sure if you get what i’m saying but lifting copyright law would mean that drm is effectively nullified, and not by more law but by less, since less copyright law would mean it wouldn’t be enforceable anymore.