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Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".

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[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 197 points 8 months ago

This is where our lazy lawmakers need to step in and protect consumers. Make it illegal to revoke these types of licenses over greedy, lazy, exploitative business mergers and acquisitions. If corporations want to fight that, then they shouldn't be able to "sell" digital movies or games anymore: Any time you go to "purchase" digital content, it must plainly tell you that you're renting said content for an undetermined amount of time.

Funny how so much recent talk has emerged yet again about how companies like Microsoft want to get rid of disc drives on their next Xbox... It's almost like companies don't actually want you to ever truly own anything. A rent economy is toxic and rotten, and it's infuriating that it's literally becoming our entire economy.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 45 points 8 months ago

Companies change the contracts all the time and customers just agree to them.

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Consumer protection would help, so maybe it’s time to start voting for the people who support it.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I want a lot of things from the US Congress, but platform planks like better consumer projection/rights just sound like easy votes for any candidate. I can't wrap my head around why nobody is at least lying that they'll address this.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile, the EU is crafting all sorts of consumer protection laws just like the member countries have been doing long before even joining the union.

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