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Originally Posted by acidzebra
The losses to all of us are hard to oversee: I do not for one moment believe that corporate entities like that are EVER going to be willing to release content to the public domain, we'll see what is happening now: companies will just "sit" on the content (who knows, it might become profitable again someday), try to extend copyright terms indefinitely (not a new thing), and if they go belly-up, the content goes down in flames with them.
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Why would it "go down in flames"? A company's IPR forms a part of its assets. If it goes "belly up" the liquidator will sell those assets - they don't just "vanish into thin air".