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.
Thanks, PirateSoftware!
Hope every gaming company out there is sweating buckets at this. This is a matter of consumer rights.
We don’t want them to sweat, we just want them to do the right thing by their customers
These two things overlap under capitalism, as doing right by your customers is only required if not doing right by your customers affects your profits.
We definitely want them to sweat.
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.
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.
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.
The European Parliament legally cannot ignore it.
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).
If only the “tax the rich” petition had such a great villain to reinvigorate interest, but I take what I can get.
This is an EU petition, not the US.
Doomers coming out in force today
???
What does the US have to do with anything I said?
Many countries in the EU already tax the rich. I mean, it could be better. It could be a lot better, and we still have right-wing types that try to destroy that positive element within the EU.
But of all the countries that would benefit the most from heavily taxing the rich, it would be the US. And since the US has made itself the centre of all the world’s attention, and the whole world still uses the USD as the primary exchange currency, anything that would shake up the economy of the US would shake up the economy of the world.
Nothing, but that doesn’t stop people with Americabrain from making terrible comments here.
The EU has a record of actually passing pro-consumer legislation such as the GDPR and forcing companies to use standardized cables. Claiming that nothing is going to happen because of lobbying doesn’t hold up nearly as well as it does in the US
There are no billionaires in EU, didn’t you know that?
There were, but we ate them.
If only.
My thoughts exactly, I find it very disheartening.
Elon, Trump, and the rest of the fucking pantheon weren’t enough to invigorate interest, I don’t who is.
Edit: how the duck is this a controversial statement
But how many of these have worked at Blizzard?
Dude I could code at Blizzard in a smart fridge
Why would that matter? EU is generally not as shit as the US on consumer protection
It’s a jab at the Pirate Software guy, I believe.
I miss when I didn’t have to hear about him all the time
Yeah, I’d like to think people would focus on other things now that SKG picked up the pace but he’ll most likely be brought up for a long time regardless on what happens with the campaign in the future - even if just as a punching bag for people to feel superior about.
I wouldn’t call it safe. The required margin is unknown and the initiative could still dip under 1 mil.
Additional signatures could still help. If you know somebody who can and hasn’t signed yet, ask them to.
Keep at it EU gamers!
If only someone could garner that much support for StopKillingGazans amirite
The whole Gaza situation is a wasp’s nest that nobody should poke without knowing damn sure what they are doing. There are multiple big players playing chess with other people’s life there, and you could lose a lot.
But given the complexity the chance that the situation is resolved and thus something is won is very small.
Yes, it’s terrible what is happening. But unless you have a lot of resources and a big army you are not in a position to muscle all the parties involved into submission, which is what will be required at this point.
There’s arguably much more support for that, than stopkillinggames.
But the political opposition to stopkillinggames is far less.
Easy to gather, but will likely be ignored, sadly.
We should vote out any EU parliament member who doesn’t vote ay on that lae
Lobbying against ‘SKG’ will be massive.
As always - evey problem comes from people voting on conservative and not social-democrats or social-liberals
Every other parties are bullshit worth zero
Gamers unite 💪
But then Trump said . .
This isn’t about you, America.
I genuinely can’t think of any way to address your level of immaturity. Here’s your reality check. I didn’t vote for the guy, I don’t like him. You’ve been checked kid.
And StopKillingGames has nothing directly to do with America. It’s a European/UK petition. At least understand what the topic is about before bringing up unrelated things.
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
Here’s your reality check. I didn’t vote for the guy, I don’t like him. You’ve been checked kid.
Like someone actually typed that out, wild.
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
An internet without Americans?
Yes please, I’ve been craving this for quite some time by now
Bring back Minitel!
You’ve been checked kid.
OK, Boomer.
Quiet America, Europe is talking.
Why? Are you guys trying to figure out if there is any places or people left you can colonize and massacre?
Says the descendant of colonizers.
Lol, thanks for sending over your best and brightest!
