{"id":1234818,"date":"2025-02-25T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234818"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:28:00","slug":"wyden-asks-for-rules-about-whether-you-own-your-digital-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234818","title":{"rendered":"Wyden Asks For Rules About Whether You Own Your Digital Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you&#8217;re not really buying an ebook or video game. From a report: Wyden&#8217;s letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to &#8220;ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed decisions and understand what ownership rights they are obtaining.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Wyden wants the guidance to include how long a license lasts, what circumstances might expire or revoke the license, and if a consumer can transfer or resell the license. The letter also calls for the information &#8220;before and at the point of sale&#8221; in a way that&#8217;s easily understandable. &#8220;To put it simply, prior to agreeing to any transaction, consumers should understand what they are paying for and what is guaranteed after the sale,&#8221; Wyden says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Wyden+Asks+For+Rules+About+Whether+You+Own+Your+Digital+Purchases%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F25%2F1728223%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-280.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F25%2F1728223%2Fwyden-asks-for-rules-about-whether-you-own-your-digital-purchases%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-195.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/25\/1728223\/wyden-asks-for-rules-about-whether-you-own-your-digital-purchases?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23620381&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you&#8217;re not really buying an ebook or video game. From a report: Wyden&#8217;s letter, shared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234818\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}