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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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (10 children)

GOG

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm ok with distribution restriction of digital good because the nature of it. Unless you want to nft-ize your copy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I can think of some other exceptions, but they're usually large, dangerous, or otherwise regulated as such, yet you're still an owner of it.

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