This is brilliant. It saves you from having to channel suggestions through MEPs. If a suggestion gets enough signatures they have to consider it.
The Stop Killing Games Initiative is being pursued through this channel and it is already 1/4 of the way through to the cumulative signatures required! Make sure to publicize this in other European language social circles to ensure people can retain ownership of digital goods they have purchased and not have it unilaterally seized by the publisher.
If this anti-consumer practice not stopped here it will spread to other aspects of our increasingly digitized life.
Yup, just signed this one. It would be nice if the law they stopped it with was written very generically so that it applies to other digital fields too.
It’s true, but the broader the scope, the more time MEPs will need to consult the larger group of industry stakeholders and the less focused the law could end up becoming.
If this basic premise holds (games “leased” for $5/month can be taken away any time, but games, and importantly game add-ons “purchased” for a set price cannot be made completely non-functional), then this line of thinking will spread across industries. It will counteract the idea that publishers can take away or make inaccessible digital goods whenever they want. Laws can eventually be passed at either the member country level or at the union level.
It saves you from having to channel suggestions through MEPs
By this logic we might as well just get rid of the parliament and interact directly with the Commission via opinion poll.
