Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This isn’t the end of the movement in Europe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoODQFrPgw&t=734s

  tl;dw: There is a much broader support for SKG in the European Parliament, the other legislative body besides the EC. Only the EC can introduce new legislation, but the EP has the authority to modify existing legislation. In this case, SKG intends to modify the Digital Fairness Act to extend it to protecting video game preservation.

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• tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t this the commission, not the parliament? The commission always sides with the industry, but they’re not the ones passing the laws.

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A comment I saw on another thread says that they will be working with the parliament to rework current law to include this, rather than relying on the commission. So yes.

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  • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Without a proposal by the commission the parliament can’t decide anything. The parliament can request them to do such a thing, but the reason the commission does not propose such a law at the moment will not change.

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    • Snowwdropp@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      SKG plans on going through the Parliament, in which they apparently have a supporting majority, to modify the Digital Fairness Act and reach their goals

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• LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If anything, I thought this would spawn some more consumer protections in the EU...Like a version of the game that customers could maintain and run themselves after official support was officially over. The movement sent a message, but apparently it wasn't yet enough.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The message sent by consumers needs to be for all “always online” games to fail miserably. If the game has an online requirement, do not buy it.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good luck getting gamers to boycott anything.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But it’s so shiny. Surely just one little copy won’t hurt anyone.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Holy willfully ignorant, Batman.

  This response addresses a claim that SKG already addressed. IP rights have nothing to do with what SKG was asking for.

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  • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah and they explained this to them several times apparently. Really disappointing.

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• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck the commission.

  The EU is definitely a net-positive thing, but the way the commission works is too undemocratic for my tastes. Stop Killing Games seem to have wider support in the parliament, which is the actual democratically elected part of the EU. The commission and all the other undemocratic parts should just be abolished honestly.

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• Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To be honest, this was to be expected.

  That being said, this is more like a marathon than a 100 m sprint.

  And the industry now knows that their leverage in not strong as they thought it was.

  I am sure they thought it would never get this far.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They forgot to bribe the politicians.

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