As major companies try their best to turn the video game industry into their own serfdoms where they set both the conditions and the prices of culture, one country in South America is leading the charge in the fight for consumer protections.
That is Brazil, whose legislators have recently proposed a new law that would safeguard gamers from the adverse effects of publishers’ decisions and unilateral, sudden terminations of their beloved video games.
According to Gaming Amigos, this new law, proposed by federal deputies Jandira Feghali and Márcio Filho, is specifically meant to protect “consumers who buy electronic games” and strong-arm publishers into meeting “certain obligations” whenever servers or games are to go offline.
