It’s worse than that, according to the article the idea is to literally steal a part of current tax revenue of the member states and redirect it directly as an EU budget. This proposal will not go through, it would be extremely strange if member states agreed on this.
If this goes through, I expect a closer look will be taken on other predatory practices concerning selling software (which games ultimately are) and possibly a precedent allowing to clearly put a hard stop to American understanding of “copyright” (as a “right to copy”) and full embracement of native European originated “authorship rights”, backed by current existing law for many many years in many of the members states. US anti-piracy organizations will not be happy, so following this line of thought - please prepare for a hard, dirty, unfair fight, with suspicious figures appearing with their backing to sabotage our efforts.
Longshot, but with this said, VP mentions SKG? That’s good, we need publicity! Let them understand we cannot be ignored and you don’t mess with gamers who were trained by their love for gaming to be stubborn, resilient and never give up.
This is important:
… but it’s clear MEPs are becoming aware that they need to engage with the issue and work out where they stand.
People probably do this instinctively not even realizing this is how to determine which way is the correct way:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20201006-00/?p=104336
On point!