anyone know of this?
http://www.holdtheline.com/threads/...u-think-of-used-games-and-always-online.5578/
They're planning a massive twitter bomb on the 1st June apparently from what I can see
Too soon after ours, IMO.
Like I said before, they've got the message, it's important not to become a nuisance, or you'll lose your access/the principals will tune you out.
The next step should be focused and coordinated to truly take the message to the next step.
I'm thinking that logical next step should be waiting until after these companies have a chance to clarify their positions, but in the meantime, gathering the info and "ammunition" for the next phase of the fight of it is needed.
This next phase would require choosing a specific day for informing governmental agencies at the state and federal level about this potentially new business practice that takes away a significant chunk of the resale value that consumers have grown to expect when they have bought discs in the past.
This campaign would be focused on informing those in the government about this potential change, its impact on consumers, and how the vast majority of these consumers will be unaware of this change in the resale value of their discs until they've already made the purchase of the console and/or discs.
It would come with an urgent plea to these governmental agencies to require Point-of-Purchase signs and product labeling clearly informing consumers about the change, so that consumers can be fully informed of their diminished rights of resale that they have become accustomed to in the past.
This requires a big effort.
First, information must be gathered to determine who to contact in your local area. We can do this easily through crowd sourcing. While letters and emails to Your local Congressional representatives are obvious, In the United States its often State District Attorneys' offices and other entities, boards, state committees, ect. that produce the best results in cases of protecting consumers. So this will need to be a multi-level, large-scale campaign of information gathering and information dispersal to the right people in government.
Obviously this campaign has to go well beyond the US as well.
It will probably require commitment from everybody active here to go beyond twitter and use all forms of communication available to stress the urgent nature of the issue and the requirement for timely action by these agencies to insure consumers are informed BEFORE they make the purchase and feel "locked in" to the new system.
Just the threat of getting the governed involved or having warning signs and product stickers at the Point-of-Sale in the first place might be enough. But the threat has to be very very real.
That's my thought on the matter anyway. Take it as you will.
