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[ANSWERED] What's going on with some person seemingly called "PirateSoftware" and the stop killing games campaign?
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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He's a game developer and Twitch streamer (game dev and playing) who's become very popular in the last few years.
The latest pile-on against him is due to him having some reservations about the wording and intent of the petition/movement and, because we're currently in a era where False Dichotomy is king: anything other than 100% unquestioning support is treated as 100% unequivocal opposition, and vice versa. 😒
My understanding is that he thinks it's a good idea in principle (as do I), but games are no longer simply compiled with only the occasional update or patch, but multi-server online complex systems with a lot of moving parts. Of you're going to legislate immortality on games, then you're going to need to make your argument for it clear and robust, who has responsibility for what, how deprecating technology is handled, and so on.
His video's thumbnail is literally him throwing the petition into a dumpster. If we were not meant to see him as 100% in opposition, that's kind of on him TBH. He certainly communicates that way.
Missing the point, as it's not a piece of legislation, it's a petition. Nobody expects it to be turned directly into law, but for the successful petition to start a process between various interest groups ultimately resulting in a law that's a compromise. Of course, if you tell people not to sign the petition, that process will never start in the first place.