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Why does physical property have "squatter's rights" and "adverse posession", but abandonware software and hardware is still under copyright and dmca anti-circumvention multiple decades later?

Why don't we have digital adverse posession rights on all the 1980s coin-op ROMs mame emulates that _haven't_ sold a handheld "50 games in one" device in the past 5 years where you can buy and play that game? Why does the "pretendo network" face ANY legal shade from Nintendo?

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