I think the collapse of Ubisoft, beyond just being hilariously karmic at this stage, also presents a nice and reasonably contained representation of the potential fallout of the failure of a company who's product requires remote authorisation to work. Are they legally compelled to keep them active even if new purchases are frozen? Is there an obligation for any firm who buys an IP - like Assassin's Creed as a good example - to take on the maintenance of those servers and services? Will they just unlock everything and add it physically into the game so it just works forever but also wash their hands of further support beyond that last mega-patch? Or will they just brick the games since they know their goodwill is so far into subzero numbers that all that remains them is spite?
