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Stop Killing Games - EU Initiative 1 MILLION ACHIEVED! + More signatures needed (www.stopkillinggames.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ArkyonVeil@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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?

Do you live in the UK?

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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[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago

Not for Germany you don't.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Signatures will be verified at the end of the petition period.

[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 11 months ago

Idk, did they ask for your id number?