Wish him, and us, the best of luck! He’s really come far from making a YouTube video about the issue but I’m glad he’s willing to stand up when few others have.
I remember the video when he was saying he doesnt want to lead this movement and just wants to game and i understood where he was coming from but damn did he ever rise to occasion. Hes a legend.
Ross Scott looking really slick :)
Thanks for sharing, and good luck to us all!
Why is this specific to games? Seems to apply to any software?
It does but the movement behind the petition that led to this hearing was specifically about games, you can read more about it on their website https://www.stopkillinggames.com/en
It’s mostly games that do this. Regular software by and large either uses a subscription model (think Adobe Creative Cloud) or an up-front payment model that won’t stop working when the vendor’s servers say so.
The main exception to this is device firmware and operating system images that require them (most visibly for smartphones), but the law in that case focused on demanding 5 years of software updates. IMO it doesn’t go far enough - they should also be forced to publish everything required for the community to pick up the support at EOL - but it’s not being ignored.
Not providing software updates isn’t the same thing as remotely disabling the software. Of course it is a major issue for smartphones, because it’s a massive security issue to not have an up-to-date OS, but it’s not the same issue SKG is campaigning on.
Without OS updates, apps gradually stop working and security goes down the drain. Nowadays this include apps required to interact with the state and basic services like banking. You can still do thing the old way, but it’s far less convinient.
I get where you’re coming from, but if we’re talking about some 6 year old budget smartphone or something, will there really be enough interest in maintaining the firmware? It seems just as likely that you’d be blowing the source code open for people looking for hacks.
Gigachad
immer diese Killerspiele, die sollte mal einer stoppen /s
Seeing Voss taking the mic during the hearing sure was a jump scare. Luckily he had nothing to say and babbled something off topic about copyright instead.
20:07 Catarina Vieira’s speech is pure diamond.
Ow, ouch, right in the cringe
Mind to elaborate on your one line, low effort insult? Maybe with any kind of argument?
Sure! What she’s saying induces a form of second-hand embarrassment colloquailly known as “cringe”. She also keeps saying it over and over again as the listener recoils deeper into their seating and gradually turns into a raisin.
I agree with her point but that does not mean that it isn’t unbelievably cringe. I also shared the video with many of my friends from a variety of backgrounds and they all agreed that it was indeed a level of cringe they had rarely witnessed.
A lot of text and still not a single word about what exactly that she is saying that makes it cringe for you.
You need that pointed out to you? The video game references. The video game references are what make it cringe. So delectably cringe that I saved the video on my computer into what is called a cringe compilation.
That’s all I wanted as response.
I bet a majority of the people in the house understood the majority of her gaming quotes, therefore proving that games go beyond the screen but become part of everyday lexicon. And companies removing games removes culture.
The chairwoman literally says that she didn’t understand any of it, which makes it all the funnier. But the funniest thing by far is the next speaker shaking his head when the camera cuts to him (though that is probably a result of the uploader cutting the video down).
Not sure if it was the right place to do it, but I enjoyed it nontheless. Good to know that gamers are represented.
I think it was the right place as it demonstrates pretty well the aspect of being part of culture.
Stop killing software.
