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If digital ownership isn't acknowledged, digital piracy doesn't exist. It's just copying something no one owns.
Commercial risks are something businesses have to consider themselves, it's not government's job.
Legal risks are exactly their problem to solve.
Company is a body of people, and its moderation can't be more or less safe, in principle, than moderation by some other body of people with responsibility for that.
Excuses.
"Digital ownership must be respected."
Yeah, that's what this entire thing is about.
in addition to safety concerns due to the removal of official company moderation.
Piss off. This just means they won't be able to rely on companies to control what people get to say.
They mentioned the early days when it comes to licensing games to us.
But dont mention that in the early days of multiplayer games it was us moderating our own online communities, not the company selling the game.
The same govt that saw the overwhelming support for petition against the Online ID verification Act & went nahhhhhhh we don't listen to our citizens.
Unless it's a referendum, apparently.
They don’t need to “hand online servers” just publish the API and do one last update to accept self hosting.
And new releases should always support self host.
These current politicians dont know a single thing about what you said but I agree
And they will make sure to continue to not know a single thing about what was said. Ignorance isn't a valid legal defence, but it sure is a common deflection tactic these days. Law makers have a professional and ethical obligation to become informed on the issues their constituents care about, but it seems like it's rare to find one that remembers that obligation.
"digital ownership must be respected"
gets into bed with Meta and OpenAI
More proof that the current "Labour" government is in the pockets of rich companies and not on the side of consumers.
Such a brain-dead stance on the matter. Nobody is asking for your garbage DRM servers, we literally want the opposite of that.
Hang on, arent these the same fuckers who greenlit AI training on IP they don't own?
Sort of. But it's easy to understand their thinking.
A long time ago they were a left winged party. But nowadays they're so afraid of the far right that for each decision they ask themselves "what would people absolutely not expect from a left winged party? Let's do that!" Which has led to several more right winged policies than the previous right winged government.
I'm unconvinced anyone will really legislate this, and if it is, it'll just lead to that country being scratched off the list of where the game is officially supported.
Realistically, we need to stop buying online only games where the servers will eventually go offline, and support those that release open servers.
The hope is that the EU will legislate it and not even apple fucks with the EU.
I stopped buying that stuff ten years ago. Indie games are always better these days
As long as the button says buy, then its ownership and should be treated like physical goods.
Vindication for bored ape NFT owners everywhere
I mean... A large percentage of NFTs now link to nothing. Dead URLs. So the bored ape bros should actually be on the side of digital preservation & Stop Killing Games.
But considering 96% of NFTs are now dead projects worth nothing, the bored ape bros probably just want to forget about the whole thing and move onto the next get rich quick scheme.
If you as a consumer want to own software FLOSS is the only option.
If I gotta pay IL sales tax on a digital game I better fucking own it!
