The Stop Killing Games fight has recently entered a new arena with a piece of legislation in California called AB-1921, or the "Protect Our Games Act." This bill, which will soon go before state lawmakers for a vote, would require publishers to ensure that their games remain playable past the end of official support or, barring that, offer a refund to players when those games shut down. One of the industry's biggest trade bodies says this bill shouldn't go through in part because it's based on the "false" idea that you own your digital games.
"AB 1921 is fundamentally flawed," according to the Entertainment Software Association, a group representing many of the biggest publishers in the US. The ESA says this in a letter urging California lawmakers to vote no on the bill, which was republished on Reddit by the organizers of Stop Killing Games – who, naturally, support the bill.
