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>Reputational Harm
Not relevant in the slightest. Activity on private servers do not affect the larger perception of the game as a whole. GTA, TF2, Minecraft, all of these are heavily modded and have nefarious activity going on in those servers but that doesn't damage their public perception of the larger franchise.
>Competition vs Community
Why would community server support be competing with the main game itself when the developers choose when to release the support? Why would they exist concurrently? At a game's End of Service, update the game and release the tools necessary so that there's nothing for the community to compete with besides itself.
>Erosion of Property Rights
The weakest of all of these points. You failed to upkeep the service while you owned it; whether or not you deserve to say you have the right to own it is something you should be questioning yourself, and that you should be going forward to make new things.
>Moderation
Literally a social issue, not a civil one, and you could make this argument for any EU citizen's right to start a php bulletin board. By this logic, they don't, because it's under some immature assumption that they will never moderate it.

What a crock of lobbyist shit.