This is a summary from @Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world:
TL;DW:
- Patrick Breyer and Niklas Nienaß submitted questions to the European Commission on the topic of killing games (the latter in contact with Ross and two EU based lawyers).
- EU won’t commit to answering whether games are goods or services.
- EULA are probably unfair due to imbalance of rights and obligations between the parties.
- Such terminations should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis (preferably by countries rather than EU).
- Existing laws don’t seem to cover this issue.
- Campaign in France seems to be gaining some traction. Case went to “the highest level where most commercial disputes submitted to DGCCRF never go”.
- UK petition was suppose to get a revised response after the initial one was found lacking. Due to upcoming elections all petitions were closed and it might have to be resubmitted.
- Also in UK, there’s a plan to report games killed in the last few years to the Competition and Markets Authority starting in August (CMA will get some additional power by then apparently).
- No real news from Germany, Canada or Brazil.
- Australian petition is over and waiting for a reply. Ross also hired a law firm to represent the issue.
This is a simplified version of simplified version.
XMPP would be the best choice at this point in time, as it doesn’t suffer the downfalls of Matrix (though even Matrix would be better than Discord).