This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.
Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.
The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.
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in some ways this looks like it correlates to the amount of the population who speaks english profficiently
How are some percentages >100%?
a chart showing a % of a places population would help, on a small island with 100% contribution would look tiny on this chart
anyone want to apply for EU citizenship so they can sign this?
while you did cover the goal, the 1st thing this will do is get the gov to clarify is “Is that they are doing legal under current law” and open the door for discussion where bribed politicians then tell the population to kiss there a$$ at which point we know who to fire at the next election so the other guy can tell you do suck it cause that is how politics work
What exactly is this map showing? How can a single country have more than 100% of the support?
I know that this petition was poorly handled before, and this do not look like an improvement.
r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT moment right here.
Does this work retroactively as well for publishers who still exist or only for current games?
Not convinced about the utility of this petition
Sad the mods deleted that post dunking on piratesoftware (a streamer with bad views about game preservation ) yesterday. The hate for him was bringing a lot of attention to the petition.
I’m not surprised Italy has only 50% of the votes to the threshold, idk if it’s the site or our digital identification system (probably the latter) but no matter how much I tried to log in using my digital identification it would always time out after the authentication, which led me to do the registration manually. Also not many of us consume foreign content sadly
Looking to clarify this in a way people will understand.
If that region only requires 4,000 votes for example, but that region brings in 6,000 votes then they exceed the threshold.
This is why you see numbers above 100%
The numbers of votes is higher than the requirement.
needs to be posted to r/balkans_irl lmao
Its so interesting that there are more than a million gamers in a single one of these countries and the turn out has still been this abysmal.
Seems like eastern Europe and italy needs more work. If anyone know how to reach people from those eras, please reach out.
As a non European, do these EU initiaives often translate into legislation, assuming they meet their prerequisite threshold or is this a “to make the poor’s feel better” type of thing like change.org here in the US?
*Crys in Brexit*
It requires 7 countries to pass the threshold right? Rn we have 8 with more than 100%, and france is at 98% and spain at 95% (the other countries are not even near)
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Nothing will come of it. I dont think they’ll get the signatures they need, I hope they do, though.