I'm not quite sure what the author wants to tell us.
- Dev makes game for publisher. There's a contract about royalties, etc.
- Dev goes out of business. But the rights in the contract don't simply disappear.
- Somebody else buys these rights. Now he gets the royalties. Often the publisher is the one who buys the rights. He's the only one with precise numbers after all.
- Then the royalties are still being paid. From the publisher to the publisher.
