This seems similar to the EUs requirements. It really speaks about the US laws when even archaic Japanese legislators (see Japanese copyright laws) are ahead of that market in customer rights/options.
Has the US ever been ahead of any of its peers when it comes to consumer rights?
No, but it also stands to profit from those violations of consumer rights, where other countries do not.
Do guns count?
How is that ahead? You mean in head count?
That might be the only thing, actually.
Has the US ever been ahead of any of its peers when it comes to consumer rights?
Fair Use is cool.
In principle it is cool, but large corporations can still bully you into submission even when it should fall under Fair Use.
Ahhh America. "Yeah we're wrong, but we can afford lawyers for centuries, lol good luck" land of the free
It’s ridiculous. I think the law should be written with the expectation that the common citizen cannot afford legal counsel for an unlimited period of time.
I am not a lawyer.
maybe right to repair?
We're trending in the right direction but we're not at all in a position to be saying we're better than anyone on that front, given how much industry pushback there's been.
At the very least it's seems heavily inspired by the Digital Markets Act, which is why I'd hope that their wording will be specific enough to close those "loopholes" Apple is currently attempting in the EU.
Ooh, ooh, do the nintendo switch next!
There's a lot of irony here considering how so many Japanese companies have a track record of pulling this kind of shit themselves.
The switch is already open source at this point thanks to all the awesome homebrew people
I meant their app store, as per this article
I see. I misunderstood that. Sorry
This will forbid "Prevent application developers from using features controlled by the OS with the same level of performance as the one used by Designated Providers."
Which is a huge win if it is enforced.
It sounds vague and will either end up being a very powerful tool or almost useless. If it's the former, it would be gigantic win indeed.
nice
Google already was?
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