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The "Stop Killing Games" EU Petition is Live (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's available as an official European Citizens' Initiative Proposal.

Deadline: 31/07/2025

Corresponding video by Ross

Edit: Swapped the links to direct straight to the initiative page.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Takes less than a minute to fill out. If you're a citizen of the EU, please take a few seconds and sign this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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.