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Sony, Ubisoft scandals prompt California ban on deceptive sales of digital goods (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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California recently became the first state to ban deceptive sales of so-called "disappearing media."

On Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426 into law, protecting consumers of digital goods like books, movies, and video games from being duped into purchasing content without realizing access was only granted through a temporary license.

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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

About god-damned time someone did something about that.

Not great that it had to be California legislating it for the rest of the country but we'd pass out if we held our breath on Congress doing anything useful

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 1 month ago

From an international perspective it does seem to be the only way you guys get any progressive laws implemented. Perhaps you should move the capital