From Belgium it was also necessary to provide your social security number. And as more EU countries are moving towards e-id, I would assume there will be a negligible amount of non-EU signings.

Don't worry too much. If the EU passes legislation for this, you'll likely benefit from it as well, similar to all the other pro consumer things spilling over.

Thankfully for publishers and unfortunately for us, it is not retroactive. But I do wish that it was.

These posts are borderline spam, just to save a few shitty live service games.

For me i had to write my personal number which is not something you could just guess on the fly so i dont think its so easy to fake signatures.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ If you have time to complain, you have time to sign! Not EU citizen? Then spread the word!

If you're gonna be a troll you can at least be good at it.

Who is "Ross"?

Just logged in via CSAM, didn't need to take out my eID or enter INSZ.

if the game you bought isnt really yours, than sailing the high seas isnt really theft. I love the EU for their consumer rights agendas.

I'm actually going to remove my downvote and reserve judgement until a response. What games do you play, and what games do you think this movement is targeting?

from Friends obviously

VideogameRoos is a youtube guy who really pioneered this whole movement. He has a series devoted to really old niche games that is really interesting (Ross' Game Dungeon). I'd highly reccomend looking into his standard content and the don't kil games afterward.

Looks like it’s time for the reverse engineering folks to come in.

... dafuq?

It is. There's no system to check if signature exists in your country's ID list. Random number generator +random name generator is enough to "validate" the vote.

> Edit: Also his voiceover halflife series is likely the best protagonist commentary series ever. It is. hard to say why but it's quite compelling.

Huh thats stupid. You would think they have a database which they check a hash against at least or something. For the user it would look like everything is excepted but in the backend they would only count the valid ones so you cant brute force it. But of course governments never think about stuff like this so why did i expect it was like this.

https://www.csam.be/en/about-csam.html

No, no no. You have to input your name, address, and various ways of establishing your EU member state, such as an EU electronic visa/id, or your specific EU state drivers liscence or tax id or some such, and the form makes it very obvious you must actually be an EU citizen. Examples: Poland  Portugal  Estonia  Its possible there could be spam or accidental/malformed inputs... but if you are putting fake info into an official government portal, especially en masse, thats potentially a number of crimes, and if its a genuine mistake from an EU citizen, it seems like there is a review process where people will be contacted and allowed to fix up their info. Also, technically, there are a few countries with more lax submission requirements, such as the Netherlands, likely due to more intense personal privacy laws... but its not like this system is not logging people's IPs, not like they won't be taking that into acount. This isn't a change.org petition, its an official EU government portal for a core process of democracy. Knowingly falsifying info on this is again, potentially a large number of crimes, as if you say lied on voting registration, or lied to Social Security or your US state's unemployment assistance system.