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Stop Killing Games

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Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


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Ross is targeting 1.4M or more signatures, keep recruiting for more signatures until the end of July. (1.4M stretch Goal reached!)

Direct Link to Initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We should totally expand this to more online software like Google keep and Spotify.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Spotify would be a tricky one because there's no way you'd magically keep access to licensed material just because the company that was providing convenient access which held rhe licensing poofed.

Yes, that does point at a bigger problem with paying for access to content that one still does not own in any way.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Now it is past 1.3M!

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A 16% error rate in signatures would seem unusual to me but there's nothing wrong with more people becoming aware of our cause and more Europeans signing onto the initiative.

[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would point out that this is quite an unusual situation for a petition, its gotten international attention, and alot of non europeans are wanting this, so best be on the safe side.

Plus a lot of trolls on 4Chan added fake signatures