This petition is part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign led by Scott Ross (Accursed Farms), to end in Australia the practice of software licensors to render purchased software completely unusable at arbitrary points in time.
This petition closes relatively soon so please get the word out to your fellow mates.
Thank you!
Do we own what we buy or do we just rent everything until someone decides to take it from us?
Even if the legal conclusion ends up universally being, “own nothing and be happy”, it will be a step up if any country can get games-as-a-service type software to display upfront an expiry date or minimum guaranteed usability date. People will be more informed in what they’re actually getting, and companies can find ways to make their game usable for longer (like an offline mode or dedicated server self host file) so that they can avoid needing to put the date on.
Watch them object to that ad on the grounds it would ‘impact sales’. Meanwhile the point makes whooshing sounds over their heads
It’s sad that that’s probably all we can hope for, but it is what it is. The playing field is not even remotely level. Fight and scrape just to get the bastards to be transparent about their thievery.
Almost makes you want to fly the skull and bones.
Over 5500 signatures, looking good 👍🏻
I’m doing my part 👍
A petition for folks who live with me in the Great White North (Canada): https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4965
For my Commonwealth mates across the other pond (UK): https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071/
Luckily these two petitions are a little more lenient on the deadlines than the Aussie one.
Is this the one that was posted a week ago? Or is it a different one?
Yeah it likely is. For whatever reason it’s only open for a handful of weeks so I’m trying to remind anyone that hasn’t signed but wanted to or told their friends about it before it closes.
Same one
Oh I didn’t see this. Glad to see someone already shared it here.
@Gamers_Mate @Rentlar no don’t delete it! It’s an important issue and more people should be able to see it!
It is only right that if a publisher wants to reap the immediate benefit of selling something digitally that they should then be responsible for maintaining owners access to that digital content. If they don’t want to maintain it, release it on physical medium with offline play and eat that cost. No worthwhile product ships for free.
@Dangdoggo @Rentlar Or allow it to be downloaded in a DRM-free file format that can be used with other apps, platforms, or services…
Also , if connecting a server is an absolute necessity and you are not longer going to maintain it, release the server source code as open source.
Universal compatibility is too much to ask of anyone imo but I agree that DRM free would be the absolute best possible solution. But compromise seems a necessity
Or just no drm
