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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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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (6 children)

without realizing access was only granted through a temporary license.

That phrasing has me concerend. Does this also cover the services being shut down?

"This is a permanent licence until we go bankrupt and you can't access the content anymore"

Purchase/buy should mean you get a downloadable DRM free file. And thing else is a rental.

[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh no that's Piracy. That's what these guys would say. They want to think you own the media but also you are not free to do what you want with it. Weird kind of ownership.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The only games you BUY now are GOG. DRM free.

You can download the installer and archive it. If GOG goes under you can still install and play it.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

You buy the license to be able to view the media as many times as you wish. If I bought a copy of the Titanic on Google movies, or whatever it's called, I've bought a license to view that movie for however many times I wish for as long as I wish. If Google decides to remove that movie then they need to either pay me back, or give me the right to download the movie.

As long as I don't share that download or make a torrent of it, then it's not piracy.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird kind of ownership.

Modern click through agreement: you "buy" a product, but vendor gets to fuck your wife because it says he can right here section 69 🤡

If you don't like it, try your chance in courts, boy!

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lul good luck in court. Section 69.420 🤡 says you agree to arbitration, fuck you.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

No they're clever they only agree to arbitration if you're suing them not the other way around. They are very careful to make that explicitly clear

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