Has a favourite game of yours ever been taken offline and abandoned much to your despair? If that's the case then a new legal challenge from the Electronic Frontier Foundation might well mean that it never happens to you again.
The challenge calls for developers that want to abandon online games to hand over control of their titles to the community.
If the petition is approved, gamers would then have legal access to any abandoned online game's code for the purposes of "continued play, preservation, research, or study." That said, it's notable that the challenge doesn't include MMOs, games with a "persistent world".
How realistic it is that the EFF would win out is another matter altogether...
Thanks, Gamasutra.