Stop Killing Games
I write a lot about video games and, as you probably know if you read any of my blog posts or articles, I am an ardent defender of consumer rights. Fighting for people’s rights against corporations, the state or anyone with money or power is basically why I write.
And even though I don’t sign many petitions — I think most of them are useless, actually — sometimes one comes along that is well thought out and has a realistic chance of succeeding. Like the Stop Killing Games initiative, which aims to intoduce EU legislation to stop games publishers from selling games to people and then, after sometimes a very short amount of time, making them unplayable by shutting down the servers needed to run them. I think this is a good idea and I think getting the EU to at least debate a law to prevent this, and thus raising public awareness of this issue, is a useful undertaking. That’s why I signed this petition.
If you’re an EU citizen, maybe consider doing the same thing. They still need about 10,000 signatures before the month is out: