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Stop Killing Games is a community-led campaign promoting continued development and support for video games after they are discontinued by publishers.

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Even before digital, if you bought a game, you had a license to play it, you didn’t actually own it. Of course, that’s in the legal sense. In practicality, unless a publisher was going to come to your home and take the game off you, you effectively owned it. Now in a digital world, that legal reality is proving an issue for users. And they’re becoming aware of something they perhaps didn’t realize before. “If nothing else, the campaign has highlighted that when it comes to digital media of certain types, it’s not about whether you’re purchasing the media, it’s you are purchasing access to it,

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However, preservation efforts haven't found much success in the political sphere as of late. Just two weeks ago, the European Commission officially responded to the Stop Killing Games movement, explaining that it "cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially"—dealing a significant blow to the fight for digital ownership. Earlier this week in the United States, the 'Protect Our Games Act' (AB 1921), proposed by California Assemblymember Chris Ward, was likewise stalled in a state senate committee. Nonetheless, SKG remains determined.

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