Ross himself responds to the lobbyist group, takes down their flimsy points one by one.
The fact that the industry opposes it just makes me like Stop Killing Games more - and I’m not even a gamer.
I like how someone put it in another thread: we’re gamers, if we see enemies, we know we’re going in the right direction.
Not surprised with the lobbying group.
Ross did an amazing job addressing the babble in the statement. Specially because he’s being extra careful on saying things to the best of his knowledge - note how he doesn’t say “it’s false”, or “it’s a lie”, but rather “a German lawyer thinks this is false” and “this sounds like a lie”; gotta respect that.
Some additional comments:
The first paragraph of the lobbying group’s statement might sound like an introduction, but it’s already a straw man - it’s clearly misleading the reader on what Stop Killing Games is about.
as the protections we put in place
Excuse me?
- Sod off with this “THINK ON PROTEKSHUN!” idiotic argument;
- let us not forget the main concern when it comes to data protection are companies harvesting data so they can sell it to their “affiliate partners” (i.e. data vultures eager who’ll use it for targetted spam).
Note #1 is a cancer way more widespread than just the gaming industry. Every fucking bloody time some megacorpo wants to fight against some sane customer protection law, they babble shite like this. And it always sounds like “a user/customer is not a rational human being, it’s irrational trash, and if you let it do what it wants it’ll cause itself harm, so We need to protect those filthy things. And how convenient, the way to protect this filth against itself magically aligns with our financial interests!”
these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
This is not even a fallacy. Not even bullshit. It’s simply to be a lying bastard, and to call the readers bloody muppets by proxy.
1M+ sign European Citizen’s Initiative “Stop Destroying Videogames”: Help us protect gamers’ consumer rights!
I think it would be sensible if the word “gamer” was replaced with “citizen” here. Because it’s what politicians care about.
these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without…
The software to make a game server is already there, you don’t have to create it ad hoc (spending millions!), worst case you have to adapt it to classic x86 systems.
This is seatbelts.
