It’s amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they’re no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.
Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en



This is more like a law that says libraries can preserve and lend games as well as books.
Which ought to be common sense, but here we are.
Lending library books is based on the doctrine of first sale, and the idea that you can resell and lend physical objects.
Running a service is not the same as selling a standalone physical good.
To extend that analogy, this would be like an obligation of the author to make their manuscripts available.
A lot of things seem like common sense of you have an overly simplistic view of the world.