Comment on US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
zikzak025@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The Tech industry lobbyists will crush this idea before it ever sees a sincere vote, but at least someone out there is trying. Though the cynic in me still can’t help but feel that this is just an empty gesture in a bid for reelection.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The timing and the rest of the guy’s record seem to confirm your cynicism.
Also, once again, this is a whack-a-mole approach, trying to legislate every individual symptom caused by the lack of consumer protections against rent-seeking, rather than regulating industries to forbid their cause. In a world where bad-faith action is a standard business procedure, we have to explicitly legally define words like “own” and “purchase”, be a use they’ll say they mean something else if we don’t.