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Over the first half of this year, we’ve talked about the resurgence of the Stop Killing Games (https://www.techdirt.com/tag/stop-killing-games/) movement, which aims to push various governments to legislate out the practice of video game publishers sunsetting their games and making them unplayable afterwards. The aims of the movement are simple: publishers can certainly sunset their games that require backend servers to work, but they should make them hostable and playable through fan-run servers if they do, should notify customers well in advance of the sunset date, or should make or alter the games so they can be played independent of the company keeping services running. To that end, the movement managed to get enough signatures (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/stop-killing-games-gets-over-1-million-petition-signatures-verified-by-eu/) in the EU to get a parliamentary hearing, which was reported to have gone quite well (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/27/stop-killing-games-got-its-eu-parliament-hearing/). That’s why it’s a surprising to learn that the EU just ruled out issuing that kind of mandate to publishers. Instead, the EU wants this to be a voluntary process, and what it’s citing as the reason it can’t be done by mandate is breaking my brain. The European Commission said on Tuesday it cannot require video games to remain playable ​after they are withdrawn from sale, but ‌will work with industry and consumer groups on a voluntary code of conduct for managing games’ “end of life”. The Commission said copyright and other intellectual property rules prevent it from imposing an obligation to keep games playable. It added it would ​work with ​consumer organisations ⁠and authorities to raise awareness of existing rights. “Active enforcement of these existing consumer ​rights can also incentivise the providers ​to ⁠offer video games with longer lifespans and explore solutions for meeting consumer expectations,” the Commission said in ⁠a ​statement. Copyright law is my reason why mandates like this should exist. Like, American law, EU copyright law offers protection for a work for the author’s life plus 70 years. After that, the work enters the public domain. Unless, that is, we’re talking about video games that require backend support, in which case it never enters the public domain and instead just vanishes into vapor. And that, I have repeatedly argued, breaks the copyright bargain entirely. In fact, it seems to me that it breaks it so completely that works like that shouldn’t even get copyright protections without rules such as exactly what Stop Killing Games is advocating for. And this plan for publishers to do all of this voluntarily? Don’t make me laugh. The very gaming companies that the EU wants to take this sort of preservation effort on voluntarily lobbied against codifying preservation efforts. Why would they do that if they were willing to do this all voluntarily? Finally, the point of all of this is not merely to make games playable for longer. It’s to preserve them as close to infinitely as possible. That should be the aim of any cultural output. Stop Killing Games hasn’t commented publicly on the decision yet. I doubt the movement will take this defeat lying down, however. 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TSKG have commented, actually. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoODQFrPgw) They’ve seen this outcome coming a mile away, as they noticed that industry lobbyists have had the ear of the EU Commission, and intend to basically bypass the Commission entirely and instead lobby to amend the Digital Services Act, as Stop Killing Games has significantly more support within the EU Parliament. The EU Commission’s approval is required for new legislation, but not for amending existing legislation. Ross Scott remarked that the Digital Services Act is a pretty suitable home for SGK’s legislative goal, anyway. • Add Your Comment Cancel reply (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/22/stop-killing-games-legislation-rejected-by-eu/#respond) Your email address will not be published.Required fields are marked * Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now (https://www.techdirt.com/my-account/?redirect_to=https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/22/stop-killing-games-legislation-rejected-by-eu/#respond). Want one? 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BlueSky is one of the very few startups that genuinely took moderation and trust& safety serious from day one • How did they walk into such an obvious backlash like this? • aabsurdity:There were reports that one of the people affected was given a 22 day timer, shown on posts. Because your entire post history dissolves into chastity after 22 days somehow, I guess? • Bluesky moderation has stepped on a few rakes, but this really scared the whole artist community, given all the NSFW and SFW creators whose lives and livelihoods were decimated by PayPal in recent months. • [https://bsky.app/profile/safety....\ https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3mnb7cza5yc2g](https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3mnb7cza5yc2g) I really could do without the idea that the concept of humans having bodies is inherently harmful to people until they turn 18. • Generations of kids have been taught how to deal with being on fire, but nobody wants to have a talk with their kids about \other people\ because it's \icky. 🙄 • benv0727:Today, I joined @IJM to call for the Senate to immediately hold a vote on my STOP CSAM Act—which advanced unanimously out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Children need protections from predators on the internet, and this bill is an essential first step. There is no more time for delay. • [https://x.com/i/status/206185715...\ https://x.com/i/status/2061857154957468115](https://x.com/i/status/2061857154957468115) • aabsurdity:If you're quoting someone, it's generally accepted that you will use quote marks to indicate this. • BentFranklin:Microsoft CEO: We’re moving from OS and apps to agents instead • [https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/m...\ https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-ceo-were-moving-from-os-and-apps-to-agents-instead/](https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-ceo-were-moving-from-os-and-apps-to-agents-instead/) • 🤮. • Mike Masnick:at some point i'm going to write something about this, but an agentic-first computing paradigm \really\ would fuck up all the efforts to age gate the internet... so I get why people don't like it for the AI of it all, but there are some interesting side effects • John Roddy:I know it usually misses the point to investigate \how\ it would break once it's been established that the break is inevitable. But hey, that's still fascinating to weirdos like me. • Also, Matt Taibbi is appealing his defamation loss to the 2nd Circus. • Get in, losers. We're going losing! • candescence:[https://bsky.app/profile/yashara...\ https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3mndxlp273d2g](https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3mndxlp273d2g) • [https://bsky.app/profile/justinb...\ https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3mndxll2mvk2l](https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3mndxll2mvk2l) • Nick Bilton is a thin-skinned stooge. • Mike Masnick:meanwhile... [[video]\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36jxNeV5L1Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36jxNeV5L1Q) • aabsurdity:[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3...\ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3fS5NyKzygU](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3fS5NyKzygU) • Seems to be a decent summary. • Leah Abram:I concur. • imatool13:@Mike Masnick with the prolifieration of Agents is MCP (mixed with skills) protocol above platform? Seems a whole lot of companies open themselves up to AI Agents more than just integrations, curious your thoughts. • BentFranklin:I didn't think we were ever going to get the Musk versus Zuckerberg slapfight we were promised, but now that we will have a cage right there, it would be wasteful not to use it at least a few more times before dismantling it. • aabsurdity:Especially now that Trump wants to keep it forever as a commemoration of his bestest and happiest birthday, like the Eiffel Tower. • intelati:What the [[article]\ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/03/trump-ufc-arena-white-house-claw-permanent/90387950007/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/03/trump-ufc-arena-white-house-claw-permanent/90387950007/) I hate this timeline • aabsurdity:It's amazing how Trump does not, and never has, and never will, have any class whatsoever. He genuinely cannot see the difference between the engineering marvel of the Eiffel Tower, and a commonplace (though still a significant technical achievement in its way) lighting scaffold. They're both made of metal. • BentFranklin:How long until his ballroom guests mosey over after dinner to watch gladiators fight to the death with Trump having the final say with 👍 or 👎 ? • aabsurdity:I can't imagine he'd be interested. He'd have to be able to care if people other than himself are alive or dead. • intelati:Not this bout. The next one is a 50/50 shot. And increasing therein • BentFranklin:You know how mobsters will make you do a crime before they can trust you? So they will always have something on you? I think about that whenever someone says "I was just Epstein's lawyer," or broker, or anything significant. • John Roddy:I someone describe the BAM article as "climbing Mount Masnick" • And my brain immediately did the movie trailer guy voice for "from the makers of Driving Ms Daisy" • Leah Abram:Maybe it’s because of where I live but when I see “BAM” I think “Brooklyn Academy of Music” • aabsurdity:[[link]\ https://fxbsky.app/profile/presidentkelly.blacksky.app/post/3mnkf25iyjs2s](https://fxbsky.app/profile/presidentkelly.blacksky.app/post/3mnkf25iyjs2s) [[article]\ https://fxbsky.app/profile/yeti-detective.bsky.social/post/3mnkhrida222h](https://fxbsky.app/profile/yeti-detective.bsky.social/post/3mnkhrida222h) AI hiring screeners apparently retaining their rejection score for applicants across multiple different jobs, at all the companies they service, for nearly a year. So, get rejected for one job, basically you're unhireable by any company that also uses that tool, for any position, for the next 330 days. That's... Pretty dang bad if true... • BentFranklin:The Smart TV in Your Living Room Is a Node in the AI Scraping Economy • [[article]\ https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/](https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/) • Leah Abram:This is why Dumb TVs are a smart option! • I want a TV dumber than Pete Hegseth! • tomacamot:Or simply don't connect your TV to the Internet • candescence:Scott Pelley is now free to shit on his former bosses and tell the world how much of a propaganda rag CBS is becoming: [https://youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?si=...\ https://youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?si=DZq7rY81Ur9IcKUt](https://youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?si=DZq7rY81Ur9IcKUt) • Quotes include "Bari Weiss Emailed my Boss and asked 'Can you make the protestors look more violent?'" and "Can you describe Renee Good as 'driving at the officer'?" • This is why you don't fire people who know where the bodies are buried. • aabsurdity:Someone said something today that I genuinely hadn't considered, which was the idea that this isn't an anti-journalism conservative deliberately torching a journalistic institution because the money they're spending doesn't mean anything any more, or that the death of CBS is simply advantageous, and instead that this is a project someone believes in and thinks it's going to work. And I have to admit that I didn't even see that as a possibility, but now that I have, that might make it worse. • Mike Masnick:Oh, they absolutely believe it's going to work. The Bari Weisses of the world believe fully that their view of the world has a silent majority behind them who were just waiting to have what The Free Press was delivering to the world... • aabsurdity:Genuinely baffling. • intelati:[https://bsky.app/profile/cdelawa...\ https://bsky.app/profile/cdelawalla.bsky.social/post/3mnrigweehc2t](https://bsky.app/profile/cdelawalla.bsky.social/post/3mnrigweehc2t) • candescence:It looks like Microsoft and Sony's gaming divisions have almost entirely reverted back to exclusivity • Leah Abram:The golden age is over. This is like when Comedy Specials went from DRM-free video files to being included with streaming services • candescence:Sony's pulling back from single-player PC releases is a bit more questionable since low sales there are kinda self-inflicted due to late but overpriced releases, but the Xbox division has a new boss and it seems she's decided that multiplatform releases simply aren't working and are hurting the brand • timothygeigner:Trust me, the exclusivity thing is on my radar. I definitely have things to say about it. • Though why Microsoft won't just admit that they lost the console wars is beyond me. • John Roddy:My favorite was the clarification that the new Gears of War would be \exclusive\ to Xbox. • And PC. • The ol' Ubisoft-style definition of exclusive. • aabsurdity:As a PC gamer... 🤷 • BentFranklin:Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers • [[article]\ https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/](https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/) • aabsurdity:> First I came for the Communists > And I laughed > Because I was not a Communist > Then I came for the Socialists > And I laughed > Because I was not a Socialist > Then I came for the trade unionists > And I laughed > Because I was not a trade unionist > Then I came for the Jews > And I laughed > Because I was not a Jew > Then they came for me > “If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” I said > “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants.“ • BentFranklin:Extinction-level capitalism a citizen’s thoughts on AI risk • [[article]\ https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html](https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html) • bode000:yeah they definitely want it to work. I see that "they want to destroy it" claim all the time. They don't want to really destroy it, they want to repurpose it for propaganda. Like Twitter. Or Newsweek. Or the Baltimore Sun. All bought by right wingers to seed bullshit in the electorate. And they want it to make money. The problem for them is they aren't competent. • John Roddy:The people taking over might be nepo babies, but they're not stupid. They see exactly what damage is being done to these once-successful brands. • aabsurdity:A while ago I heard the phrase "ownership is not a skill"... • It comes in handy for so many things... • John Roddy:That isn't a side effect. It's not even the goal. Just a bonus. • bode000:I think they want to leverage the credibility of existing brands to convert them into propaganda and confuse the electorate with bullshit. I also think they're ok if the patient dies on the table during that procedure. • not to say that sometimes they don't just want to kill an outlet outright, like gawker • John Roddy:Even then, Gawker was already dying when thiel got involved. • bode000:the only thing that could save us (in a country without any useful media reform policies or a working opposition party) is these folks have no idea what they're doing. • John Roddy:I think that highlights how much this has escalated since then • bode000:it's just wild now. I'm seeing people actually interested in conversations about media consolidation now. 😋 • everybody's eyes used to glaze over when I brought it up • John Roddy:And then one of those people explains how the fairness doctrine would've prevented this, and that's why I went on the rampage, your honor. • bode000:I see that exchange 50 times a day (you know the fairness doctrine only covered broadcast and was neither well crafted nor enforced, right?) • Leah Abram:Far too many liberals think the fairness doctrine is a panacea. • bode000:and Republicans spent 40 years whining about it only to engage in far, far worse. great stuff! • John Roddy:And today's existential horror is titled "Europe attempts to integrate American tech policy, but ends up only grabbing the Fifth Circuit Court instead" • Mike Masnick:and a week after the EU laid out its plan for building a local internet. and the cjeu jumps in with "lol, good luck" • BentFranklin:If people really want the Iran war to end, maybe stop rubbing Trump's failure in his face. It's schadenfreudtastic as all hell and really all most of us can do, but note that the Iranians seem to have stopped taunting him. • Also it's really nice to see Netanyahu on the outside for once. Maybe this war will get some regime change after all. And maybe Bibi can drag down Lindsay Graham with him. • timothygeigner:I'm very excited to find out Friday just how much Trump capitulated in whatever this "deal" is. The fact that they won't release the text until after signing is, well, quite transparent. • John Roddy:"Iran agrees to purchase Ninja Theory and Compulsion Studios" • timothygeigner:And to never vaccinate against anything ever again. All my worlds colliding at once. • John Roddy:The US agrees to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. • Leah Abram:My new BlueSky handle is ironcurtain.northsky.social • Mike Masnick:The Northsky folks are great • Leah Abram:Thank you, Mr. Masnick! 😃 • aabsurdity:[[article]\ https://eia.org/press-releases/epas-new-rule-on-refrigerant-management/](https://eia.org/press-releases/epas-new-rule-on-refrigerant-management/) [https://bsky.app/profile/climate...\ https://bsky.app/profile/climatebrad.hillheat.com/post/3mjhk6gkikk2z](https://bsky.app/profile/climatebrad.hillheat.com/post/3mjhk6gkikk2z) Are the datacenter bros just straight up getting their purchased congresspersons to bring back ozone layer hole CFCs? Is that what the "silly little air conditioner bill, lol" from a few months back was really about? • John Roddy:\in theory\, there isn't a serious problem as long as it's contained. But that is a load bearing statement with huge consequences • aabsurdity:Oh. Well, I guess we can trust Elon Musk to be a good steward of the planet, right? • strange_luck:And if he isn't, he can merge the Earth and Mars and IPO the leftovers • Leah Abram:Now you know why I’m a huge fan of giving the land back to the indigenous people from whom it was stolen Become an Insider! (https://rtb.techdirt.com/products/watercooler/) Recent Stories (1) | | 15:24 | ‘News’ Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/22/news-site-keeps-hallucinating-eff-staffers/) (6) | | 13:17 | Trump Still Wants His MAGA Slush Fund... 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