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You truly believe piratesoftware is the only reason a million Europeans didn't sign a petition on game preservation? You truly believe, if not for him, the EU would have passed legislation to regulate the video games industry. You might as well be mad at Gawr Gura for increasing the price of rice in Japan.
He spawned a bunch of misinformation that people are repeating to this day every time the petition is mentioned. He was by far the largest negative influence on the campaign. Even if it was always doomed to fail, who would you have OP clown on if not him?
Nobody? Why start a hate campaign against a person because a petition didn't get enough signatures? The vast majority of petitions don't get enough signatures. It's nobody's fault. Stuff like this just makes me think supporters of SKG are entitled man children.
A single meme or people complaining under articles isn't a hate campaign. And he was hostile and rude enough right from beginning to earn some clowning.