It's game over for fans of discontinued video games after the EU admitted defeat on Tuesday and said it cannot stop publishers making them unplayable.The EU was responding to a citizens' petition backed by over a million people from across Europe called "Stop Destroying Videogames", asking Brussels to make sure that older games which still have many fans remain available.
  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    due to existing intellectual property rights and copyright law.

    Somebody please explain to me how making self-hosting possible would affect copyright.

    • misk@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It doesn’t matter what is right, we’ve just been shown who is in charge.

      • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yeah yeah, alright, nihilism, nice, see, I refuse to believe that “all politicians are evil”™ and that at no point in this process was there anybody who genuinely wanted to solve this problem and everybody just wanted to find some cheap excuse not to do their job. So I’m trying to understand what actually happened and what the argument actually is.

        • misk@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
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          3 months ago

          What would it take to convince you that regular people are no longer in power, have felt this for a long time, and now are lashing out by voting for political hooligans? The longer we refuse to accept it, the worse it’s going to get.