Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
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Companies that fail to deliver their information within five days would face escalating fines and up to 90% bandwidth restriction.

Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban “risky” content. This isn’t just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we’ll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      That’s the thing. The vast majority of people are happy to support game devs and the steam service. That’s probably why this is not an issue causing vast losses.

      • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        While not vast with game preservation and playability a big concern actually being clear that a majority of games are perfectly playable without the Steam Launcher would ease concerns

          • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Not really. I mean I know that DRM free titles exist on Steam, but what I would like is the DRM free to be the standard

            • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              It is the standard. It’s literally the default. Its mandatory for devs to opt in. There are zero cases on all of steam where drm is the default.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s literally in the documentation and has been clear since day 1 of steam. If people fucking read the manual and faqs they would know.