Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold
petition.parliament.uk
The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.
  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 month ago

    They only got 13k signatures this time? I wonder if PirateSoftware, who I have very quickly lost respect for (like literally over the course of just a few days), had anything to do with this?

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      A far shorter time span, and this applies only to the UK, not the EU. It got a (bad) government response, so it achieved the intended effect.

    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      1 month ago

      That guy truly is a knob. I dropped him for his take on Stop Killing Games, it was such an obviously brain-dead take…

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      1 month ago

      He definitely has had some negative impact on it considering almost every time stop killing games news pops up someone parrots his already debunked points.