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UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sirico@feddit.uk to c/games@lemmy.world

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I just received this email saying that the response "did not respond directly to the request of the petition"

You recently signed the petition “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state”: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071

The Petitions Committee (the group of MPs who oversee the petitions system) has considered the Government’s response to this petition. They felt the response did not respond directly to the request of the petition. They have therefore asked the Government to provide a revised response.

When the Committee receives a revised response from the Government, we will publish this and share it with you.

Thanks, The Petitions team UK Government and Parliament

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[+] echodot@feddit.uk -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But the petition isn't going to work so you've also done nothing.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Well, I don’t live in the UK, so it’s not for me to sign, and I wasn’t talking about this specific thing.

Have you helped anyone lately? Try it. It feels better than bitching endlessly online.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

No I am talking about this specific thing. My point is that people sign the petition and then get all smug and feel like they've done something, the government doesn't care about it, as is evidenced by their response.

If you want to do something go and publicly protest it's the only thing that gets their attention. Things might be different in whatever country you're from but in the UK petitions are not worth the paper they're not written on. Also this petition was stupid anyway because it's too focused on video games, (as opposed to software in general, operating systems, critical business applications, and device drivers) which basically guaranteed the government were going to ignore it from the outset.

This petition could have been much more broad and it would have had much more marketable appeal. All I'm doing is pointing that out, and I'm getting hate from all sides from people who seem to think that the government should somehow care about video games as much as they do. Now, if somebody came up with an actual campaign that had any chance of victory I'd be all on it. The trouble is no one ever does. They just create petitions ad infinitum.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It already has done much more than you give credit for. People are talking about it. More importantly, legislators are talking about it, which is the first step for things for laws to change/clarify what it means to own a digital product in the UK.

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