Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed

CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Two more months to go and more than 50% left to reach 1 million signatures. It’s sad to see that with how many people game, this petition has so little reach. I guess we’ll have to wait till Fortnite is shut down, then suddenly many more will care that their childhood game is gone forever.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, I think it was just a lack of awareness that the petition in existed in certain countries where Ross just didn’t have enough reach, possibly due to language barriers. A big push from native speakers of those countries with large audiences, like streamers, could’ve pushed it over the edge.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know if I fully agree with the petition, but I do think that there are some real problems with the status quo.

    I also think that either a legislature or courts need to provide legal criteria for the good or service division with games. I think that there probably need to be “good” games, "serviceʾ games, and possibly even games that have a component of both.

    But I’m not in the EU or UK.

    I also am kind of puzzled by this:

    www.stopkillinggames.com/faq

    Isn’t the law on this already settled?

    A: It mostly is within the United States, but not in many other countries.

    It doesn’t sound like it was as of 2020 in the US, at least on the good/service distinction:

    carltonfields.com/…/youve-been-served-legal-effec…

    Of course, case law has never really been settled on whether games are goods or services. Right, Steve?

    Steve Blickensderfer: No. No, I haven’t been able to figure this out one way or the other looking at the cases.

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    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It doesn’t sound like it was as of 2020 in the US, at least on the good/service distinction:

      The creator of the Stop Killing Games campaign did a segment about the viability of fighting it in the US in a segment here: youtu.be/DAD5iMe0Xj4?t=1168

      tl:dr, the motivated lawyer he talked with on it eventually concluded that it’d be nearly impossible to fight here due to how slanted the courts are toward businesses.

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