Technology

I remember buying fallout 4 and when the dlc came out I bought those digitally. My PS4 died so I bought another, linked my accounts etc.. two years later I decided I wanted to play fallout again, so I load it up and go to download the dlc and it's asking me to purchase them again. I check my library and they're gone. I check my game and the files won't load because I'm missing the dlc files.

Anyways I contacted PlayStation who said that because they have no record of me owning these on their end they can't help. I have even the purchase emails but because they lost all the data on their end they refuse to give me my money or dlc. So yeah that's when I realized that a digital library can just be pulled out from under you, no matter how much you spent on it.

“If buying isn’t owning then pirating isn’t stealing”

Sail the high seas for life

Good. This should have been clarified years ago, and not just in California. I've bought too much content that is no longer accessible. For instance, from the Wii store...

tl;dr

California's new law will require digital storefronts to clarify that consumers are buying licenses, not outright ownership of digital goods.

The law forces companies to use distinct language when selling digital media to specify license terms to avoid false advertising fines.

The law goes into effect next yea, but won't apply to companies that offer “permanent offline downloads” of digital goods.