• WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    That is not what is being discussed and was never being discussed. You’re sounding like you’re being pedantic to try to pick a fight

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I’m being specific because this is being intended as a law everyone must follow. “All games need to be available forever” is very vague. How will this vague law be applied in practice? People brought up the idea of eternal code preservation. Alright. How does that work?

      I’m not picking a fight. I want supporters to explain in vivid detail their expectations because it’s clear not even all the supporters agree on how it would be implemented. Some said it doesn’t apply to MMOs. Some said it does. It needs to be one or the other. That’s not being pedantic, it’s being realistic.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        What the petition says is what it’s asking for. What we want may be different. What European parliament drafts, if we’re so lucky, will be what’s actually the law. The concerns in the petition are quite clearly about how this applies to EU consumer protections, and many of us are interested in that plus the bonus that this will grant to preservation by proxy.