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Since you said silly and inconvenient I'll keep from more serious propositions and say:
App/login pestering. Large fines for each individual exposed to it. Even most corporations would hesitate to do it.
Also every narrative work (book/movie/game/comic/whatever) would have to have a legally registered "estimated number of installments" with a set ending written the moment it gets published. Going past the limit and publishing more installments to that media would incur fines that would start high, and grow by powers of ten with every extra installment.
You wrote a trilogy of movies with a nice satisfying ending? Good good. Enjoy making money off of it. But if you make a sequel or prequel you'll have to pay 1 billion dollars. Extended universe? Ten billion. One hundred billion. A trillion.
Gonna be honest, a system that governs narrative works sounds like something from an orwellian dystopia, in which, ironically, the protagonist would publish a story, do a follow up because of public demand and end up being executed behind the chemical shed
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Changing products and pulling products of the market.
Launch a new flavor of chips? Cool, but youโll have to keep selling it until the end of time.
Want to change the flavor? Fine, sell it under a new name and also keep selling the old flavor.
Apple forced to continue selling the iPhone 2G in 2147 despite not even displaying the correct date and time due to overflow
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Oh, I would require measurements in inches (or cm) of waist, hip, rise, inseam for women's pants. You cannot just call it a "6" or whatever, I am outlawing those sizes.
Microtransations.
I wouldn't ban them, though. I would enforce a law that forces any cash sum for an in-game item to be reversible. If you pay $5 for a hat, you should also be able to sell a hat for $5, and have that money arrive within your account within 24 hours. Any company with a market cap that allows for payment to occur for at least 10 people that are operating microtransations would be forced to oblige.
That way, we either see full in-game currencies where effort is rewarded with real money, or the immediate erasure of microtransations.
We'll also see the "rental" market for videos disappear overnight, because suddenly you can trade in that copy of Shrek 2 you rented from Prime Video for a crisp $15.
Hell, any item you pay for should be returnable within 30 days, at least. Good luck selling a fucking Ultimate Team pack to children, EA! Once they see that pack is full of shite they'll sell the contents back to you. Even worse, the lucky bastards that get a shiny Cristiano Ronaldo will sell for thousands.
Either you build a legitimate financial market, or you don't make money off of shit people don't want.