VOGONS


First post, by GigAHerZ

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First, I'm sorry, if it is a wrong place or forum. But i feel this is exactly the correct place and this petition is very relevant to everything we do here in this forum.

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.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/

You may want to check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

(I know something similar has been going on for a while on the other side of the "great pond", too.)

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Reply 1 of 5, by GL1zdA

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I've just signed it, the initiative already reached the threshold in 5 countries and should soon reach the threshold in the required 7 countries. But we are still far from 1,000,000 required signatures, so more are needed. I don't know how it works in other countries, but in Poland signing it is super easy, you just log in with our "notational ID" and it's done.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Tiido

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I signed a while ago, and all my friends did too ~

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Reply 5 of 5, by BitWrangler

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They'll be like "Dude, didn't you read the TOS, we don't even guarantee we release them in a playable state" 🤣

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