An increasing number of videogames are sold as goods, but designed to be completely unplayable for everyone as soon as support ends. The legality of this practice is untested worldwide, and many governments do not have clear laws regarding these actions. It is our goal to have authorities examine this behavior and hopefully end it, as it is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media. We are pursuing this in two ways:

TL;DR this is an EU petition aimed at making sure that companies are obligated to distribute binaries of the server code of their multiplayer and live service games. Currently, video game companies of online/live service games use a form of SaaSS (Service as a Software Substitute) model where the “game” someone has purchased is simply a license to run the game in only the way the company sees fit (their servers, their platform, their rules). If a company were to go under or simply not run the servers required for the full game to function, then the user is out of luck as they’ve effectively had the game taken away from them.

This is just another example of why ALL leftists must strive to fight for free software. If we don’t consider software which respects your freedom an important endeavor to uphold, then we make ourselves vulnerable for further and further exploitation. If you’re reading this, this includes you as well.

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    One of my professors recently asked me why I support “piracy” (I uploaded the class’s textbook to Libgen I’m so fucking cool) and it’s that I neither support plagarism nor breaking copyright law (licensing work incorrectly and sharing it incorrectly), but I do support artists getting a livable wage and not having to worry about anything else but their art.

    It seems that when I “pirate” the artists are left starving and when I “purchase” the artists are still left starving, so tell me? What’s not changing?

    Also lmao this professor was cool with me uploading his textbook because it was a live service E-book that I had to painstakingly screenshot each page and put them in a PDF in Libreoffice Draw. He also thinks live service E-books are bullshit but doesn’t have the Marxism to explain why.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Based. You rule. Love to see it. Knowledge is meant to be shared.

      E-books are bullshit, but also my University lets us access them for free during our degree, so at least poor people can read them instead of shelling out $200 for Campbell’s Biology.

      My problem is that these are temporary access. You can’t read them once you graduate which is bullshit.

      Physical copies of these books should be given to students for free and subsidised by the government. But noooo we need to give money to Elon for his piss shuttles and to Israel to bomb babies.