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US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" (arstechnica.com)
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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

It shouldn’t be narrowly focused on just video games. Should simply be anything digital.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Babysteps? Maybe if it is about video games, the old people won't know enough about it and pass it, which would make it easier to expand to any digital software.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Scoped in a way to get press and hopefully positive attention before voting starts in a week or so.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 2 points 55 minutes ago

Agreed, but if passed it would set a significant precedent that would surely have to flow onto all/other digital media.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 5 points 46 minutes ago

If only he wasn't one of the biggest AIPAC stooges in Washington.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 46 minutes ago

I'd like to see this effort include the responsible sunsetting of games.

If publishers no longer wish to host the game, and noinfer wish to collect money for it, they should relinquish the server code and let communities prop up games when the games services are decommissioned.