badgermurphy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"⁩ ⁨⁨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.