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Yes you do. I had a ToS with an anti competitive clause in it, no reselling, was told they needed to transfer all our customers, etc, or they and us could get fined for illegal reselling.

Phoned their regulator, was told to register as a reseller, and call back if we still had issues.

After the registration had been finalized we contacted our new wholesaler, all that came of it was being unable to add new accounts for a few months.

The next company we had the issue with you could basically hear the face palming on the phone why they had allowed a registered reseller to open an account that didn’t allow reselling, and whether they would allow us to continue reselling or whether we should do a conference call with <name of person> at <four letter agency>.

It was basically one of those pray I do not alter our agreement further moments.
> No, you can't do it because the seller of the game does not allow you to do it. There is no law requiring sellers to lock down their games with DRM or other forms of restriction.

DRM is usually bypassed within hours or days of the game release. After that it is still illegal to copy the game from your friend.
I can see why that argument might work for a laissez-faire libertarian, but we have innumerable laws on what is contractable. That this should be singled out specifically as something which shouldn't have any such protections seems in my experience to be attributable to the fact that people don't consider games important.

Besides which, I challenge your claim that the buyer knew the terms perfectly well. The terms are often dozens of pages long and written in dense legalese, with clearly little belief or intention that the buyer will read them, and arguably specifically to dissuade the buyer from reading them.
Traditional finance hacks usually abuse tax / debt of large enough companies. Web3 finance hacks take all available money directly out of your personal account. That's a much worse situation for a normal user, because with a bank you can often say "this is wrong, fix this" and the bank is insured enough that they will. Compare to the situation in Venezuela where the in-built bug bounty currently takes a significant amount of people's savings and they have no way to revert it.
And you need to get your conspiracy theories out of your head.

There is nothing, NOTHING, humanity agrees on. No way in hell would you get 200 odd governments to 'conspire' against you.
> My SO has a driving license but only a debit card. I had a credit card but no driving license. Since we were not from the US, they explained, the driver had to have a credit card. Mine wouldn't do.

I ran into exactly this problem maybe 20 years ago in San Francisco, but we were both Americans. Ended up getting a rental from some super dodgy outfit: it was obvious that this combination put us in the “might be poor” category in America, even though we were definitely not. In the end it was illuminating how quickly you could be marginalized by just not fitting the standard pattern even as well-earning white Californians living in good neighborhoods.
Seems today early to me.
Sounds nice, but I don't think we need legislation. It would bring the entire digital content ecomony to a grinding halt. The line between what can be owned and what cannot be is not clear. The line between what's a digital good and what's not is also not clear. Is your online bank balance a digital good? Is it an immutable binary that's considered a digital good? An in-game item in a MMORPG that requires servers to operate? Is Adobe Creative Cloud a good or a service?

The details are messy. And the lawmakers would guarantee the passing the most fucked up version of it with some other draconian measures bundled in there. Startup ecosystem would be in sheer panic to comply and some won't even contemplate starting a company selling digital goods/services. The scope is so insane, I am having a hard time thinking about it.
afaik, the c is handwritten for performance reasons, and is manually proven to be a refinement of the executable haskell model. the haskell is then proven to be a refinement of an abstract, more succinct spec.
Yea I saw somewhere airtags are just Nordic chips? Kind of surprised because the airpod w1/h1 chips aren’t
There is nothing unfair about licensing. I contribute to FOSS software, I expect that an individual or company abide by the terms of the license I grant them and that license is terminated if they fail to meet various conditions. That seems fair to me, it wouldn't become unfair if a payment was required either.

But I think you have got it right with the rest of your comments. There has to be a meeting of the minds in these dealings, and I don't believe these companies are acting in good faith when they explicitly or implicitly suggest that you are "buying a game" or "buying a song" even if you can find out what that really means in fine print somewhere.

Hopefully we get more legislation and precedent that forces them to be more explicit about what these purchases mean exactly.
I'm from ohio, but been living in Utah since 2013.

Let me tell you, snow back east was just something you talked about, or moaned about, etc...

Out here, it's a totally different thing. Economically it's extremely valuable, I mean the license plate reads: Utah: The Greatest Snow on Earth.

Ski-resorts are a big industry out here.

Tourism aside, the snow pack out here is crucially vital to farming(arguably a bad use, esp. considering 70% of Utahs' water goes to alfalfa (a high water sucking crop) farms of which the Governor owns one of the biggest), residential water systems, etc. I'd imagine w/ no snow the Colorado river could even mostly dry up. (Maybe I'm off on that, I'm not a geologist).

Fire season starts earlier, lasts longer, covers more places, and I've seen 3 small fires start during storms in the past 2 years, never before that have I ever seen a forest fire up close.

My point is Chicago, will survive easily without snow, the west... I'm not sure can exist at all without snow. Honestly, I'm not sure we'll last past 2035 unless there's a miracle. I'm certain there will be massive migrations by 2050 from the coasts inward, from the west to the east, from the hottest climates to cooler ones (esp if the temp exceeds survivable thresholds)... and then the resources in the middle of the country will start to struggle, maybe droughts there cause even more instability ...eventually there will be water wars.

I'd bet my life savings on that. I can't say when, but eventually it'll happen. Again - unless we have some scientific miracle that completely reverses things... I'd like to see a huge space sun-shield device concocted ...our first mega structure in space... it would be kinda cool to see how they build something that big..