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!
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.
Or just no drm
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.
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.
Over
5500620068008100 👀 signatures now, looking good 👍🏻
