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Only if the publisher has taken steps to stop individuals from preserving them through more traditional means.
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As in, the publisher has stopped them preserving it otherwise, so now the publisher must make it accessible somehow?
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Exactly. If you implement DRM that will make the software unusable if it can’t phone home, you should be legally required to have a plan in place for when your servers shut down.
MMO servers get a bit more complicated since they often rely on third-party components that aren’t releasable.