If you're an EU citizen and you hate DRM and planned obsolescence, here's an easy petition for you to sign:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
TL;DR: If online-only DRM servers shut down, publishers would be required to keep your game working regardless.
Only targets video games because that is where this practice is by far the most prevalent today, but it would set a precedent that we might soon need for things like phones, cars, and all the other things that are increasingly getting CPUs shoved inside them.
1 year to reach 1 million signatures.
@siguza Alright, but this is very broad. Will I have to port my MS-DOS games forever to new operating systems when this goes through to "leave them in a functioning state"?
Should be more specific, I'll pass.
@sos "Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers". This is online-only DRM. Nobody's talking about "porting to a new operating system", you just made that up.
@siguza It does styate that the burden of "providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames" is on me speciffically and that's the part I'm talking about.
