Ross Scott is the founder of the Stop Killing Games movement and makes video game-related videos.

The " Stop Destroying Videogames " citizens' initiative is asking for something most customers take for granted: that when you buy something, you are entitled to keep it.

Most video games work indefinitely, but the industry is pushing a paradigm shift where a game's functioning is completely dependent on a publisher continuing to support it. This has led to customers owning nothing, nor even being informed when what they paid for will expire.

The blatant unfairness of this practice has led over 1.4 million citizens to sign the initiative. The message is in the title: They want publishers to stop destroying customers' video games.

The problem has become a threat to the medium itself: An

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