Gregory's Server@siguza reminds me of you trying to come up with a good name for that sort of software (not only for games). Do you know if anything has taken hold? I really did like the serfdom analogy myself (a descendant of a serf nation here) but yeah that word won't work in english.
@blanxd I did settle on the term "hostageware" and got a domain for it. Then before I got round to doing anything, Ross launched his whole campaign. I reached out to him, offering to build an easily accessible database of all affected games and potentially other products (I also have the domain deadgames.net lying around), but never heard back. Wouldn't be surprised if Gmail had sent me to spam, or if I'm simply in the backlog. So for now I'm just following his campaign as closely as I can to wait and see what happens.
@blanxd I did settle on the term "hostageware" and got a domain for it. Then before I got round to doing anything, Ross launched his whole campaign. I reached out to him, offering to build an easily accessible database of all affected games and potentially other products (I also have the domain deadgames.net lying around), but never heard back. Wouldn't be surprised if Gmail had sent me to spam, or if I'm simply in the backlog. So for now I'm just following his campaign as closely as I can to wait...