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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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months 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.

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      3 months ago

      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!

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          3 months 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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      3 months 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.