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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
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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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!
Lul good luck in court. Section 69.420 🤡 says you agree to arbitration, fuck you.
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.
This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying "anything goes if you agree to it" this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.
what's the defense? "people won't buy it if they know they won't own it!!! we're entitled to all the money everywhere!!!"
it's not enough to have their cake and eat it too--they're after your cake also
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