Edit2: As of third of July we've achieved the minimum amount of 1 million signatures! But organizers recommend as many signatures as possible to cover for possible invalidations (1.5M would be ideal). If you have not yet signed, you can still help!

Onto the post.

Yarr citizens of the high seas! The Stop Killing Games movement is still ongoing and we've recently had a second wind. It's within reach!

We're all lovers of media in here, and games currently have no safeguard that guarantees that they won't be locked down long after being released and abandoned. If crackers help us, they can still be played long into the future, but many times there isn't such a possibility, specially in multiplayer games.

This initiative seeks to change that by mainly:

Disallowing planned obsolesce in paid video games. (Ex: By disallowing phone-home based DRM after the game reaches end of life. Like in Ubisoft's The Crew)
Ensuring that paid multiplayer games can still be reasonably played long into the future. (Ex: By releasing relevant server hosting software)

If you didn't sign yet, there is only one month left. Tell your friends too.

Do you live in the EU?

You can sign it here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Do you live in the UK?

You can also sign a different one here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

Do you live elsewhere or would like to know more?

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Disclaimer: Reminder post, sort of relevant since piracy movements have much to benefit from this initiative.

Have a fine day!

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[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth -4 points 3 days ago (15 children)

How is that petition even valid? For example, as a non-EU citizen, what's to stop me from just selecting Finland and entering bogus info? Does that mean as a US citizen I get to decide EU laws?

Additionally, from the "initiative seeks to..." part, none of that is listed on their website as goals. They don't list any goals which is kind of problematic if you have an EU petition. Its a petition to do what specifically (show me a goal)?

EDIT: I just read through the Past Actions & Results of their site. Of the completed Actions, all of the them have failed. I then realized this petition doesn't require EU to pass anything, only that a committee look at it. I feel like this is a really well intentioned activity that ultimately will fail due to poor execution. Even if the petition succeeds, no action has to be taken by EU member nations and historically hasn't.

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