Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!
There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.
The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.
Why is this only Games-Specific? This happens to a lot of current software. Even the ones, thats NOT "in the cloud" is checking its valid license over the internet nowadays and so prone to be broken when the vendor decides or goes bankrupt ...
@jwalzer
The initiative is focused on videogames because there are legal precedents that explicity separate videogames from other software (why? Unfortunately I can't wrap my head around it). That could mean that if the initiative was about all software, videogames could be excluded again.
Another reason was that keeping the initiative focused on videogames would help making easier to spread the word with the help of gamers and gaming communities. (the campaign has no founds)
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Personally (having to deal with companies like Adobe and Autodesk for my daily job) I really hope that a regulation on videogames could be extended to other software.
But that's my view. Please note I'm not among the representatives in Bruxelles for the initiative, I'm just volunteering to try to achieve the signature goal. So I speak for myself having just partial knowledge about the start of the campaign and influence on the campaign.
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@jwalzer
We have to keep in mind that in case we reach 1M signatures the EU commision will have to research the subject and offer a response.
If they think a regulation should involve all software they can do it. The ECI is supposed to raise an issue that's dear to the citizens to the EU commission, for the better or the worse how to respond will be up to them.
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Jan Walzer