It begins. Pirate MEP Patrick Breyer will petition the EU commission regarding the shutdown of 'The Crew' servers preventing the game to be played by people with a legal copy. "G*MERS ARE DEFENDING THEMSELVES"

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/pirates-ask-eu-commission-to-look-into-killing-of-video-games/

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Tax_Credditor mo/ney 5mo ago #6239868

I get the reasoning as to why, but all over a decade-old mediocre racing game that nobody played? At least choose something good to start this over.

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Solzhenitsyn ayyy/lmao They probably WERE Israel but now New Hampshire Tax_Credditor 5mo ago #6240027

I haven't been following this all that closely but I'm assuming they're going after this one because it was developed by French studios, and the French government has a history of being extremely neurodivergent about art preservation

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LeeChaolanEnjoyer Hey/Hachi Lee isn't gay dood I swear :squidwarddance:

Tax_Credditor 5mo ago #6240114

I'm sorry guys, I feel like I am going fricking insane in this thread; none of you motherlovers understand the idea of legal precedent? :marseyconfused:

Even beyond legal precedent (which is explicitly why they are targeting The Crew, they see this as the easiest case to win and subsequently gain precedent for more important cases/games in the future), every single website you go on now asks you about cookies because the EU made a law on it. How is this so hard to understand? If they win this case, it could very well have a domino effect on the entire industry, regardless of whether the games are made in the EU or not, just like all the US sites that follow the EU laws on cookies.

Sometimes I can't tell if you guys are just confidently r-slurred/wrong, or if it's a bit. I think its just r-sluration in this case :marseydramautist: