Post #1810794
2026-04-23 07:58 UTC
Sure, it’s not vital to our survival or freedom, but ownership over digital media is a pretty damn big deal in the current age.
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-04-23 08:50
It’s more about maintaining infrastructure than ownership. If you buy a game on Steam and Valve can later delete it from your library it’s about ownership. If a company shuts down the central server and the product stops working it’s more about planned obsolescence. The same issue affects many IoT devices, not just video games, and I think protecting those is more important as it affect more consumers and generates e-waste. But I know stop killing games just gets a lot of coverage on lemmy because there are a lot of gamers here. I’m sure people also write petitions and talk in EP about more important topics like climate change and human rights.