curtail developer choice

Yeah no shit. When developers choose to be anti-consumer, that must be curtailed. That’s precisely what regulations are for.

Wtf

"Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable. In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create."

What the f kind of statement is that? Software in this way is provided with a licensen, and the very first thing it will say is 'provided on an "as is" basis and no libility is taken regarding its function or purpose' If a private server runs a gitlab instance and someone has the brilliant idea to upload Something illegal on it; gitlab is not liable because that would be insane.

The entire statement reeks of copy paste slob and minor legal jargon but is full of holes.

'Not financially viable' is the only truth here, if we asse there is work required to make.it available. You already MADE the software, which is most of the work. Just let us revere engineer it

Looks like corpo is going to lie as much as possible to keep destroying your games for extra profit.

Oh no, I feel so bad that it would remove their choice to steal from their customers. Moving on.

In other news, thieves hate regulation against theft.

Yes, reducing choice is what the laws are made for. This is not necessarily a bad thing.