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Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' (www.pcgamer.com)
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It's amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

Official Stream: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en

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[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He says in his videos "I'm just some guy who wants to play video games, I don't know how to lead a movement. But uh, here we are I guess!" He's spent a massive amount of time and effort on it, when he just happened to end up the spokesperson. Incredibly cool guy.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

i think he tried to bail once and then realized he isn't allowed to

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe he said if this fails, he's done since it's just been too much work. Then he managed to get a million signatures to be seen in front of eu parliament, so he's back in it.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure he wanted the Stop Destroying Games crew to take over after signatures passed, but someone must have told him he's the face of the campaign now :p

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I found where he talks about it https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo?t=52m44s

He essentially says "ya there are no next steps, so if this fails, I'm done, not because I don't care anymore but because there's nothing left to do!" I don't think he wanted to be the one in charge in the first place xD

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Ironically, those are the correct people to be in charge. Anyone else is usually a narcissist, or at least has narcissistic tendencies getting in the way of actual progress.