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California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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If you don't retain some kind of actual ownership, they will not be allowed to use terms like "buy" or "purchase" on the store page button. I hope there aren't huge holes in this that allow bad actors to get around it, but I certainly loathe the fact that there's no real way to buy a movie or TV show digitally. Not really.

EDIT: On re-reading it, there may be huge holes in it. Like if they just "clearly tell you" how little you're getting when you buy it, they can still say "buy" and "purchase".

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[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago

GOG

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago

Is still only licensing you the game regardless of whether or not you can download it and play it offline without a problem.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

If they can't take it away from you after you bought it, I think I can still call it ownership.

[-] turtle@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Not trying to argue, but I don't believe I can re-sell my copy of a game I "bought" on GOG, so in my view that's not full ownership as most people understand it. If you're a full, legal owner of some property, you can sell that property anywhere you like.