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Stop Killing Games:
The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.
The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
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We also literally lost much of the original Apollo Program footage because NASA had to re use a bunch of memory tapes.
https://www.npr.org/2009/07/16/106637066/houston-we-erased-the-apollo-11-tapes
NPR, from all the way back in 2009, before renewed interest in going back to the Moon also kickstarted a new wave of conspiricism around this topic.
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But yeah, a lot of people don't realize that if a successful assertion of more reasonable digital property rights can be achieved here, with video games... it could massively lessen the ability of tech corporations and all other industries of all kinds to turn the entire goddamn economy into having a digital/computer subscription component.
It sounds stupid, but a significant win here could actually stymie the encroaching corporate neofeudalism (where we own nothing and rent everything, according to EULAs and TOSs that can change at any moment) that otherwise seems destined to be our future.