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Through the last couple weeks, we've seen how much large companies and lobbying groups are not only fighting hard against SKG, but are fighting against consumers (and creators) themselves. From SKG receiving a nothing answer from EU commission to Sony's announcement about physical copies to the California law not passing to ESA blatantly lying about community servers, this is an uphill battle. But it also points out why there is so much push back and lobbying against SKG as a whole.

Deep down these corporations know that SKG could prove to be the precedent on digital media preservation and pivotal in offering ownership rights over digital content as a whole. If it comes to pass, years of work from these corporations on chipping away at ownership rights so that they control what media, in what quantity and at what price, we as consumers can consume could all go down the drain which in return would hamper their goal of endless growth. The invoking of "think of these smaller devs" when majority of the pushback comes from the large soulless corpos is proof how much they don't want the consumers to have a relatively small win.

But also means the movement and by extension, we the consumers, would have to become more uncompromising. For example, the constant "please think of the little devs" cannot and should not have any impact on us as consumers. At the end of the day, every studio and dev should adhere to preservation of consumer's ownership rights. No matter how big or small, a dev, a studio or a publisher doesn't and shouldn't have the right to take away your purchase. "But what about all the middleware licenses and infra license and server license and this and that." These are details that will just have to be figured out by devs at the concept phase. There have been enough olive branches extended to the publishers over these, and at some point, the compromise will have to come from them.

So I'd like to point out that Activision Blizzard (which is currently owned by Microsoft) has endangered consumers repeatedly with their own servers on COD. If (RIGHT NOW) you were to play older COD games on official servers, literal hackers (not kiddie script hackers who cheat at the game, ACTUAL Hackers) can use the game to access your PC and infect it with Malware.

The ESA also claiming that private servers are a "threat to Child Safety" and can lead to "Sex Crimes" towards women and the former...is ironic, given that the Microsoft Rep LYING to the State of California (which is a crime, by the way. Perjury is bad enough but Perjury during a STATE HEARING is horrid) forgot to mention Bobby Kodick and his involvement with a certain creepy Island Billionaire who recently supposedly committed Sodoku (substitute this word for the other Japanese word involve self-deletion).
Edit: Forgot to mention Bobby causing a woman to commit self-deletion at Blizzard, given their "Work Culture" as he defended it. Hint: work place sex crime occurred and Bobby couldn't care less.

They themselves are ADJACENT (not just associated with but ADJACENT) to people who harm children while their OWN servers give access to both domestic and foreign CYBER TERRORISTS (hackers who cause harm are legally considered by the FBI to be Cyber Terrorists, by the way) to infect our computers. And they have the AUDACITY to say that me playing Minecraft by myself on my own server is "dangerous"

I hope StopKillingGames does something to point all this out or maybe ask the State of California to reprimand the ESA for committing Perjury.

They're now OPENLY breaking the law ON CAMERA by LYING to the State of California. They didn't even bother having a private meeting like Ubisoft did with the EU. Like holy crap, man. They're ballsy (and evil) as hell.

Today is a strange day for me as I never make a comment as I normally keep to myself. It is the way I do things. I just like to read and watch but after today I decided to speak up.

This account is a dead one and has no links. Sorry about that but what I am about to talk about would rock some boats.

As you know there has been a few interesting pushers with the gaming community as well the games we own and movies we own by digital and disc. As I am also part of that community first before my job I think it is time to speak to you all before it is too late and the choices we have.

As you know Sony has announced this year that in 2028 there be no disc after they just took 500 movies off the community saying that they do not own the license. Where some of you complained there was not enough of you did. Most have simply overlooked this issue and this was just the start. When XBOXS pulled there Film and Tv did you ask yourself, did XBOXS community lose there films or series? The answer: They did not. That is because the film and series you paid for is that you own. The was the same for Sony Community. They were testing you. Testing all of us. Now the games? So why?
That's because Sony seeing if you fight back? When you do? Are they still making money. So far the Answer is yes. When you lose your disc you lose the ability to own and your right to play that game in the future. Nintendo, XBOXS and Sony are all wanting this. This is so they can choose what you can play, how to control the payments for you, How to use you to keep paying. If they decided to Remake classic games into AAA using AI and able to take away the classic from you. As well forcing you to upgrade to the PS6 as they did not like you still using old-gen. Well you now know what the plan for the future is and there a lot more to come what they openly denied.

Now some of you may like this, defend this or stand and defend them. That is fine. However, If you want real change? Now is to act. How do we do that. The simple thing is. Do not help Sony and let the company lose money.

This would mean boycott everything to do with Sony. Cancelling or PSN, Cancelling your Per-orders and yes this would mean GTA what I know most people would struggle or refuse. This is hard for all of us including me.

However, we do have a choice.
We can allow Sony to make there moves, putting the ground work for the rest of the players and we own nothing. Lose our right as a consumer.
OR
We can stand together today, Say no. Hit everything at once and sit for a few weeks or months and let the money eat away until they agree on change. Where we can force them to agree we own the games, own the disc's, able to keep playing as well of the 500 movies you all lost. It is very simple all you need to do it talk with your wallets. Sony will break.

I will say this too. They are very worried about China and coming together would shake them. It is really up to you but its either now or Accept the future. Change be harder later.

Good luck.

We’ve been seeing a lot of debate lately about games getting delisted and becoming unplayable for new buyers.

​On one hand, many say it's just 'how the industry works now' and that convenience wins. On the other hand, a lot of us are frustrated that we don't truly 'own' the games we pay for.

​I’ve been reading through some heated discussions, and it seems like we’re stuck between two extremes: either we accept the digital future, or we get angry about it. But is there a middle ground? Can we demand better ownership rights or better preservation standards without just bashing the platforms?

​What’s your take? Is there a way for us to have both the convenience of digital stores AND the security of actually owning our games?

Hi, im New to this page. I am a PC gamer, mostly Steam. Can anyone tell me if Steam has a history of turning servers off? Or is that mostly EA, GOG, Epic or one of the other platforms?