California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it | Digital storefronts won’t be able to use words like ‘buy’ or ‘purchase’ unless they make the disclosure.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426
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What waste of time and increased compliance costs.
In other words, they don’t want to actually protect us from losing access to content we’ve paid for, they just want to normalize the idea that we *will* lose access at some time in the future.
This is actually a very good sign. This was one of the goals of [AccursedFarms’s Stop Killing Games campaign](https://www.stopkillinggames.com) (specifically getting companies to admit before purchase that there’s a use-by date on purchased software) and – while not an ideal end goal – it means that someone in the California government has started paying attention to it.
This could just be a first step to something more concrete.
California seems to be unlike the usa , they often do these actually good and reasonable things, protect buyers, emission regulations.
The argument that allowing misleading labels is good for the economy is also stupid beyond belief.
Honest labelling will just create new space and opportunities, an ultra capitalist would say, right:-)
rent. they should just say ‘rent’.
because it’s a rentier economy.
All citizens in the EU should join Ross Scott and sign the *Stop Destroying Videogames Initiative*
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
Looks like it should be applied to the automotive industry as well.
One step forward but miles to go .
A majority of us don’t anything ,not our music or services that’ we pay for a can be removed immediately.
At this point I think death is only thing left we’re not being forced to subscribe too
Good because those words have a different meaning from what these vultures want them to be