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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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[–] 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.