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

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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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[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 month 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!

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

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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