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Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M (media.piefed.social)
submitted 2 days ago by simple@piefed.social to c/games@lemmy.world
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https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Safe to say the petition was a success! Now we will have to wait and see the EU's response to it.

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The only way I see that happen is having the tools and ability to pirate any and all media like we had back in the napster days. That's the only time I've ever seen these companies scared. A petition I don't think will do much. Plus not only is there this issue. There is also the issue of groups now targeting the way funding works like on steam. Payment processes are now being used to apply pressure where certain groups do not like the content.

The solution was always to defend and protect the people who cracked and pirated content. But I think they were all locked up and threatened.

[–] AgentRocket@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A petition I don't think will do much.

This isn't just any regular change.org petition, that can be ignored. It's an official partition based on EU rules, where EU parliament is forced by law to listen to the initiators and talk about the topic, when it passes.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok but is there any group or lobbyists who are advocating or will this just be a petition sent to them which they can just ignore.

[–] eatyourglory@feddit.it 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The European Parliament legally cannot ignore it.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To what extent do they have to talk about it, though? Can they address it, come to the conclusion that it's infeasible (while subtly tucking millions of dollars from game companies into their pockets), and consider the matter settled? I understand that governments are meant to keep corporations in check to benefit the people, but functionally they keep the people in check to benefit corporations and their "lobbyists" (bribes).