Will Mario Kart Wii rise from the ashes once known as Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection?
The Electronics Frontier Foundation (EFF) is petitioning the United States government to allow legal modifications of games that no longer function online to do so once again.
Games like Mario Kart Wii that no longer have online support would potentially be playable online again if third-party servers can be set up by people in the modding community. As of now this is illegal, but the hope is that it will be made legal for anyone using legitimate copies of the games. They do, however, make the distinction between games with online features and MMOs, the latter of which have content stored on servers.
The petition is being filed with both the Library of Congress and the United States Copyright Office.