Only if they still sell the assets.
I'm in favour of also dropping any copyright and intellectual property protections the moment a company stops selling the game. They evidently have no more commercial aspirations for the title, so it doesn't need any protection from technically feasible copy protection circumvention methods.

Amity doesn't fly regularly. And not those high-G maneuvers.

So we're finally caught up with the redraws, nice.

Yea, people mostly equate email to an electronic letter, but it's more like an electronic postcard. Anyone handling it can simply read it.
So you'll want encryption, too. So either you get everyone to use PGP/GPG or get them to use a privacy-by-default provider.
Good luck with the first option and I'm not sure how interoperable the various providers are, so in the worst case you'd have to rally everyone to the same provider.

Camera and baseband seem to be the general pain points. Somewhat unsurprisingly, given that both are complicated black box devices.

Yup

From that angle it might be a slug.

The Fediverse consist of many separate servers, running different software. But they all communicate, they're a federation of different social networks. This way people on a Mastodon instance can comment on threads on a Lemmy instance, etc.
But similar to banning offending users from communities, there are protections built into the federation. If, for whatever reason, an admin of instance A decides that a specific instance B should not be part of their Fediverse, they can defederate it. Meaning their instance A will no longer pull data (communities, posts, comments) from that instance B. They're effectively muting the offending instance B from their side.
Users from that instance B can still post/comment on instance A, but users of instance A will never know, as instance A never requests that data. Users on other instances, federated with both instances, will still see it and can decide for themselves of they want to keep it that way.

So if you insist on being a twat on the internet people may stop listening.

Then you simply would've been defederated.

The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.

It's not about being helpful in the sense of just answering the question at hand. If OP just wanted the question answered they can just Google it. Instead I wanted to offer an alternative, low risk solution.
While Ubisoft, EA and consorts can easily stomach some piracy and still crank out "AAA" titles in a 6-months interval, it hurts small studios relatively more. Buying and returning, on the other hand, offers a way to give feedback to the studio via the return reason and costs just as little as piracy.

I'm not saying it was always the case. Back when ads were just images hosted on the same machine as the rest of the page they were only annoying.
But nowadays even so-called acceptable ads are delivered by third-party servers. So suddenly you have to trust not only the operator of the page you're visiting but also any advertising partners they use. And since all modern advertising uses a gazillion of metrics that necessitates JavaScript you end up executing code that neither you nor the page operator have any actual need for nor influence on, hoping that the ad network has some sort of vetting process so they don't end up unwittingly delivering malware.
That's a tall order in my opinion.

ProtonDB says it's decent, the game is Steamdeck verified plus you can return it with under two hours playtime, so I'd just buy it.
Any upgrade path with a pirated version should be completely irrelevant.

All ads are a cybersecurity risk, not just the targeted ones. The targeted ones just offer new and exciting vectors.

Yup. You can pay Netflix for 4K, but you can only get 4K with Edge on Windows and even then only if you have the right hardware. Like, what's the point? On Linux you can only get 1080p by spoofing your just agent. Otherwise they only give you 720p.

Yea, that's just plain stupid of them. I don't know how they expected that to go over.

Oh yes, I bought that content, but sure, take it away. I totally understand that the licensing changed.

– No one, ever

Buy it. Larian is a small studio that put a lot of effort and love into that game. If you like what they do, support them. You can get it DRM free on GOG, so you get to actually own it.

To be fair, streaming was never buying. It was always paying entry to a library. If stuff gets removed from the library that's the way it is.
That isn't to say I don't agree. Piracy is a service problem, as Gabe Newell so eloquently put it. Streaming started losing the moment it started splintering into cable networks.

Wouldn't that be obvious from the force required?

We're moving back, so the adventure is coming to a close. But we're avoiding some of the mistakes from the first move. Lot less baggage.