The initiative is at more than 20% of the 1 million signatures necessary.

As of 4 pm CEST the numbers are:

Country Number of Signatures Percentage of the theshold
Austria 4,187 31.26%
Belgium 7,116 48.06%
Bulgaria 2,764 23.06%
Croatia 2,527 29.87%
Cyprus 288 6.81%
Czechia 4,690 31.68%
Denmark 7,684 77.85%
Estonia 1,827 37.02%
Finland 10,266 104.01%
France 16,732 30.04%
Germany 45,688 67.51%
Greece 2,469 16.68%
Hungary 4,509 30.46%
Ireland 4,680 51.06%
Italy 7,949 14.84%
Latvia 1,569 27.82%
Lithuania 3,109 40.09%
Luxembourg 430 10.17%
Malta 279 6.6%
Netherlands 15,999 78.25%
Poland 20,517 55.97%
Portugal 5,019 33.9%
Romania 7,917 34.03%
Slovakia 2,773 28.1%
Slovenia 1,478 26.21%
Spain 16,261 39.09%
Sweden 13,698 92.52%
Total 212.425 21,24%

To be successful the initiative needs to reach 1 million signatures and pass the threshold in at least seven countries.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

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    Really doesn’t matter whether the proposal as it is in the petition is completely realistic or not. The point is to get this topic into the EU parliament. It’ll be their job to work out a solution that works for both consumers and developers.

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      The first video does address this idea - time stamped for convenience. Basically it’s starting the wrong conversation, without enough nuance to a group of people that may not understand the nuance of the gaming industry. Could end up with more bad than good, as gov’t has done by accident before. I recommend a watch of those two videos, I probably haven’t summed it up very well and out of context clips aren’t necessarily a good representation either. PirateSoftware’s a good speaker imo, easy to listen to.

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        I don’t agree with it starting the wrong conversation. Something does need to be done about companies denying access to a game you bought and that’s the conversation it starts. If this proposal lands on the EU negotiation table, I can guarantee you that the games industry will lobby against it, and heavily. There is no chance the EU will just go “OK sounds good, make it so!”. Heck, the chances are higher that if they pass an actual law, it will be so watered down that it won’t do anything at all. But then at least we tried.

        I’ve watched his first video, but I really don’t agree with many of his points. He only barely acknowledges this being a proposal and then gets lost in the details. He’s clearly against any measures that have the slightest potential to be a disadvantage for game developers, which I guess is understandable from his perspective as a developer. But he doesn’t seem to particularly care about the consumer’s rights, basically saying the problem is solved as soon as the publisher makes it clear at purchase that people are only buying a temporary license. He’s also trying to discredit supporters of the initiative by saying they don’t know how the industry works, despite quite a few people in the industry supporting the initiative as well.