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"On January 1, 2025, California’s Assembly Bill 2426 (AB 2426) will go into effect. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2024, AB 2426 requires digital retailers to be transparent about what consumers are actually purchasing when they pay for movies, music, games, and other digital goods. If you think you own what you pay for in the digital world, you might want to read the fine print. (Or re-read it if you’re that kind of person.) For years, digital storefronts have exploited vague language and fine-print licensing terms to convince consumers they are “buying” digital games or media, when really they are just buying a license to that content – one that often can be revoked at any time.

The new law mandates that sellers in California clearly disclose when a purchase is, in fact, a limited, revocable license. Further, it bans terms like “buy” or “purchase” unless these words are accompanied by disclosures indicating that the purchase might not confer true ownership. In this way, AB 2426 enforces truth in advertising for digital products, ensuring that companies can no longer mislead consumers into thinking they “own” a digital product only to have it disappear from their libraries later."

https://publicknowledge.org/ownership-used-to-mean-something/

#USA #California #DRM #Rentism #Copyright #IP


CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES

Southern California firefighters gain ground over wildfire thanks to decreased winds
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #california #wildfires

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/g-s1-33558/southern-california-wildfire


🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.9 strikes 13 mi N of #Salinas (#California) 2 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1728431


Oh-so-#ProgLibs... NOT! Never was. KKKalifornia was ALWAYS redneck and in proglib strongholds CRYPTORedneck

"The outcomes of Tuesday’s election suggest that voters in blue #California, known as a liberal bastion, want to be tougher on crime. California voters also passed a measure to make #shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and make #fentanyl possession a felony as well."
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California May Have Voted to Keep #Slavery in #Prisons
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/california-slavery-prison-vote-election-2024-1235155591/


Malibu Canyon is a well-know rich bitch fire insurance scam "community".

"Wildfire Closes Malibu Highway as Winds Rip Through #California"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/wildfire-closes-malibu-highway-as-winds-rip-through-california


"It’s part of the established playbook that Big Tech — which Andreessen and Horowitz are closely aligned with, despite their posturing — runs at the state level where it can win (as with SB 1047), meanwhile asking for federal solutions that it knows will never come, or which will have no teeth due to partisan bickering and congressional ineptitude on technical issues.

This newly posted joint statement about “policy opportunity” is the latter part of the play: After torpedoing SB 1047, they can say they only did so with an eye to supporting a federal policy. No matter that we are still waiting on the federal privacy law that tech companies have pushed for a decade while fighting state bills.

And what policies do they support? “A variety of responsible market-based approaches.” In other words: hands off our money, Uncle Sam.

Regulations should have “a science and standards-based approach that recognizes regulatory frameworks that focus on the application and misuse of technology,” and should “focus on the risk of bad actors misusing AI,” write the powerful VCs and Microsoft execs. What is meant by this is we shouldn’t have proactive regulation but instead reactive punishments when unregulated products are used by criminals for criminal purposes.

This approach worked great for that whole FTX situation, so I can see why they espouse it.

“Regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs,” they also write. It would take thousands of words to unpack all the ways that this idea, expressed in this context, is hilarious. But basically, what they are suggesting is that the fox be brought in on the henhouse planning committee."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/01/microsoft-and-a16z-set-aside-differences-join-hands-in-plea-against-ai-regulation/

#AI #AIRegulation #USA #California #SB1047 #Microsoft #a16z #BigTech


Update. "#Apple might’ve backed a #RightToRepair bill in #California, but it was spotted lobbying 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 a new bill in #Oregon that tries to ban the practice known as parts pairing."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/24067957/apple-right-to-repair-oregon-bill-parts-pairing-ban


Update. "#California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass #RightToRepair Legislation."
https://www.404media.co/california-assembly-unanimously-passes-right-to-repair-legislation/


Update.

The #RightToRepair Is Law in #Minnesota. #California Should Be Next
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/right-repair-law-minnesota-california-should-be-next


idiots. Katie Porter is amazing.

“Porter’s campaign was also targeted in the race’s last month by $10m in attack ads from a Super Pac funded by the cryptocurrency industry. The Pac celebrated Porter’s defeat in a statement on Tuesday night.”


“By November, California won’t have a female senator for the first time in 30 years.”
#USPol #california


This is fascinating, and I predict I'll soon be hooked on checking in, just as I was when living in Southern #California and logging every minor tremor I felt with #USGS.