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… […]
While I will freely admit that the lack of a physical drive is a huge way to drive downloaded (and licensed, revokable) content controlled by the company, it’s worth noting that physical media is really not all that great a medium for transferring things like games or movies anymore. Blu-ray discs can hold, in ideal situations, around 50GB of data. A lot of games – especially AAA games, are well beyond that. I think Spider Man 2 came in at like 85GB? The internet says Hogwarts Legacy is ~75GB on XBox.
Network connectivity, and downloading content to our devices is almost certainly going to be the way a lot of the world works going forward. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to back our content up elsewhere, or offload it to some other device.
Your right in noting that the laws and regulations need to keep up and protect consumers’ right to the content they’ve purchased.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 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.
ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s entirely unreasonable to assume that the average person has the time or knowledge necessary to read, comprehend and agree to every terms of service agreement shoved in their face. Legislation should reflect this fact, and there should be something similar to game and movie ratings that give an easy to understand summary of the agreement.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Well said. I love everything about this agreement and the limits it inherently puts on “creative” terms in their agreements.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Imagine if there was a law for making the contracts easier to understand.
Sign here: _______
Come to think of it, slot machines do tell you quite clearly how bad the odds really are, but people still dump their money on them. Why can’t we have similar honesty and clarity when it comes to contracts.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 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.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
They’re probably getting paid specifically to not address this is the issue.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 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.