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.
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
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.
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.
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!
Don’t worry, deceptive sales are still allowed everywhere else…
Having it in Cali is the first step to it eventually being in more of the country. This is a good thing
