Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
1d 6m ago by feddit.online/u/Beep in games from digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
This isn't the end of the movement in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoODQFrPgw&t=734s
tl;dw: This was unfortunate, but not unexpected. There is a much broader support for SKG in the European Parliament, the other legislative body besides the EC. Only the EC can introduce new legislation, but the EP has the authority to modify existing legislation without involving the EC. In this case, SKG intends to extend the Digital Fairness Act to protecting video game preservation.
Isn’t this the commission, not the parliament? The commission always sides with the industry, but they’re not the ones passing the laws.
A comment I saw on another thread says that they will be working with the parliament to rework current law to include this, rather than relying on the commission. So yes.
Without a proposal by the commission the parliament can't decide anything. The parliament can request them to do such a thing, but the reason the commission does not propose such a law at the moment will not change.
SKG plans on going through the Parliament, in which they apparently have a supporting majority, to modify the Digital Fairness Act and reach their goals
Parliament doesn't just change existing laws though. That requires a new commission proposal to start a binding revision so they know what should be changed if anything. You can't just get turned down by a commission and go to parliament. You'll just get sent back to a commission.
If anything, I thought this would spawn some more consumer protections in the EU...Like a version of the game that customers could maintain and run themselves after official support was officially over. The movement sent a message, but apparently it wasn't yet enough.
The message sent by consumers needs to be for all "always online" games to fail miserably. If the game has an online requirement, do not buy it.
Good luck getting gamers to boycott anything.
But it's so shiny. Surely just one little copy won't hurt anyone.
To be honest, this was to be expected.
That being said, this is more like a marathon than a 100 m sprint.
And the industry now knows that their leverage is not strong as they thought it was.
I am sure they thought it would never get this far.
Holy willfully ignorant, Batman.
This response addresses a claim that SKG already addressed. IP rights have nothing to do with what SKG was asking for.
Yeah and they explained this to them several times apparently. Really disappointing.
Fuck the commission.
The EU is definitely a net-positive thing, but the way the commission works is too undemocratic for my tastes. Stop Killing Games seem to have wider support in the parliament, which is the actual democratically elected part of the EU. The commission and all the other undemocratic parts should just be abolished honestly.
They forgot to bribe the politicians.