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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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[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 146 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But what does Pirate Software think of the situation? That's what I really need to know.

His dad worked at Blizzard, y'know.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I saw a random youtuber actually figure this out.

Get banned from Prirate Software's chat speed run, Any%.

He made an account, joined, and just politely asked what Thor thought of the recent SKG EU Parliament hearings.

Total Elapsed Time to Ban: Approximately 9 seconds.

Thor then muttered about not wanting to hear anything from any SKG assholes.

Dude is a literally terminal stage narcissist.

[–] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 30 points 1 day ago

The first second generation Blizzard employee!

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have no clue what Pirate Software is (from context it could be a game developer?), but it sounds like they already hint at an alternative solution in the name.

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 8 points 1 day ago

He's a spoiled nepo-baby who had a dogwater take and instead of learning and growing from it has doubled-down.