cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28425976
Sign here to support the EU’s “STOP destroying videogames”
This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.
Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.
The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 days ago
It really looked like it’ll be signed quickly in the beginning, I was really hopeful.
Now I’m not really sure it will pass.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
Sometimes they still look at a petition even if it didn’t reach the threshold. At least that has been the case for German petitions.
In the end they still get ignored, whether they reached the threshold or not.
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 days ago
I mean, not even 500k people in the whole of EU care about this apparently, so we get what we deserve, I guess.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, under 50% of the required signatures and it’s just a few weeks from expiring, there’s no chance this will succeed unless some big-name influencer gathers support for the petition, which at this point I doubt will happen.
It made some people talk about the problem, though. That’s a step in the right direction.