Source: Ars Technica
Article note: We needed this regulation widely implemented like 20 years ago.
If it isn't covered by first sale doctrine, you aren't "buying" it.
If a vendor controlled server controls your access, you aren't "buying" it.
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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.
Sponsored by Democratic assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, the law makes it illegal to "advertise or offer for sale a digital good to a purchaser with the terms buy, purchase, or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good, or alongside an option for a time-limited rental."
