[HN Gopher] California new law forces digital stores to admit yo...
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       California new law forces digital stores to admit you're just
       licensing content
        
       Author : extesy
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2024-09-26 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | blackeyeblitzar wrote:
       | How about all sales that involved "ownership" be forced to
       | function as actual ownership, retroactively?
        
       | 486sx33 wrote:
       | "Renting" the content is a better description. Hopefully one day
       | the pricing reflects that.
        
       | whycome wrote:
       | The article refers to "physical media" as though that was
       | previously representative of actual ownership. Adobe "sold"
       | versions of its creative suite that are no longer installable
       | even if you have the physical media: Because they "had to shut
       | down the activation servers". This practice should be part of
       | that legislation - retroactively even.
       | 
       | Owners of a digitally disabled version should automatically get
       | access to whatever the current version is. If Adobe isn't okay
       | with that, I'm sure they can find a way to run that obviously
       | heavily burdened server to activate what must be millions of
       | calls. /s
        
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