Consumer Rights
You Own It But Can’t Play It: The Digital Ownership Fight
An old CD that won’t play on a PC is a small symptom of a big problem: paying for media you cannot reliably use. Here’s how copy protection, licensing, and dead servers keep breaking ownership.
Inside the Sony and Microsoft Tariff-Refund Lawsuits
Console buyers are suing over tariff refunds, and the companies want the cases tossed. Here’s what the lawsuits claim, whether you’d be part of the class, and what the backlash means.
Console Pricing Under Fire After the Tariff Refunds
Court filings from Sony and Microsoft gave buyers a rare look at how console prices get set, and how murky ‘because of tariffs’ really is. Here’s the pricing question underneath the refund fight.
Console Tariff Refunds: Why Sony and Microsoft Say No
Sony is due about $508 million in tariff refunds and plans to keep it. Here’s what the companies argued in court, why your console cost more, and whether buyers can claim anything back.