Edit2: As of third of July we’ve achieved the minimum amount of 1 million signatures! But organizers recommend as many signatures as possible to cover for possible invalidations (1.5M would be ideal). If you have not yet signed, you can still help!
Onto the post.
Yarr citizens of the high seas! The Stop Killing Games movement is still ongoing and we’ve recently had a second wind. It’s within reach!
We’re all lovers of media in here, and games currently have no safeguard that guarantees that they won’t be locked down long after being released and abandoned. If crackers help us, they can still be played long into the future, but many times there isn’t such a possibility, specially in multiplayer games.
This initiative seeks to change that by mainly:
- Disallowing planned obsolesce in paid video games. (Ex: By disallowing phone-home based DRM after the game reaches end of life. Like in Ubisoft’s The Crew)
- Ensuring that paid multiplayer games can still be reasonably played long into the future. (Ex: By releasing relevant server hosting software)
If you didn’t sign yet, there is only one month left. Tell your friends too.
Do you live in the EU?
- You can sign it here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
Do you live in the UK?
- You can also sign a different one here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/
Do you live elsewhere or would like to know more?
Disclaimer: Reminder post, sort of relevant since piracy movements have much to benefit from this initiative.
Have a fine day!
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Great keep going!
Few months late, but the movement is still going. The EU response hasn’t come up yet. You can learn more in: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Remember everyone, 1 million is a MINIMUM goal. Keep signing afterwards if/when we reach the milestone, as some signatures can be declared invalid due to errors like wrong spelling, so we need every single person we can get in the EU to sign this!
An important reminder that if this can be enacted into law, there is a chance it would not only apply to games but also at some point maybe to all software that does not require a server to operate most basic functions (ie. looking at you adobe)
Sign it, and get your friends and family to sign it because the proposal is pretty common sense: if you buy something, you should own it.
Personally hoping this opens the door to discussing planned obsolescence in the digital realm as a whole, from games to software. It’s corporate wild west over here.
Do I have to be a citizen of the EU or just live there? I’m going to be moving to Sweden soon but won’t be a citizen for a long while still
Citizens only I’m afraid. You can still help though by spreading this around, if any of your friends are EU citizens they can help.
hell yes a petition will show them for sure
It’s a European Citizens’ Initiative. If it gets enough signatures, the European Commission has to discuss it and make a decision what to do about it.
Given the impressive increase in signing rate, I’m a bit afraid it’ll turn out to have been tampered with
Yes, that’s why it’s important to gather more than 1 million signatures. At least 1.3 million to be on the safe side.
At the end of the collection, all invalid signatures will be deducted from the total.
So now it’s more important than ever to keep sharing and signing.
FOMO, popularity and trending algorithms are powerful forces.
How is that petition even valid? For example, as a non-EU citizen, what’s to stop me from just selecting Finland and entering bogus info? Does that mean as a US citizen I get to decide EU laws?
Additionally, from the “initiative seeks to…” part, none of that is listed on their website as goals. They don’t list any goals which is kind of problematic if you have an EU petition. Its a petition to do what specifically (show me a goal)?
EDIT: I just read through the Past Actions & Results of their site. Of the completed Actions, all of the them have failed. I then realized this petition doesn’t require EU to pass anything, only that a committee look at it. I feel like this is a really well intentioned activity that ultimately will fail due to poor execution. Even if the petition succeeds, no action has to be taken by EU member nations and historically hasn’t.
Signatures will be verified at the end of the petition period.
Do you know how? Its pretty easy to just randomly generate addresses using something like this (https://www.bestrandoms.com/random-address-in-fi). I can just VPN to Finland and enter Itätuulenkuja 92, 02100 Espoo, Finland. Its just a construction yard, but is the petition recipient going to actually check that?
Don’t know the exact mechanism, but EU countries have national ID database, so unless you’re committing actual identity theft your signature will be invalidated.
There’s no realistic way to spoof the eID I needed to vote. It is bound to you, you generally can’t get one without in-person identification, and once you have it it only works with an authenticator app.
I have signed the petition but wasn’t ever asked for an ID.
So in countries like mine (FR) how are they gonna check my signature?
Idk, did they ask for your id number?
what’s to stop me from just selecting Finland and entering bogus info?
The petition needs to be signed with the eID of a EU country, a EU passport or a EU identification card in most countries.
Unless you have one of those, you can’t sign the petition with bogus info.
Not sure how countries that don’t have those handle it.
