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Accommodating The Needs Of Iconsumers: Making Sure They Get Their Money’S Worth Of Digital Entertainment, Lucie Guibault
Accommodating The Needs Of Iconsumers: Making Sure They Get Their Money’S Worth Of Digital Entertainment, Lucie Guibault
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The current methods of distributing music and film on the mass-market, either off-line or on-line, raise two types of consumer protection issues. First, consumers are not always in a position to know what they can and cannot do with their digital hardware and content. A lack of proper information and the ensuing failure of the products to meet the consumer’s expectations inevitably leads to discontent. In addition, as weaker party in the transaction, consumers have often no other choice but to accept or refuse the restrictive terms of use, even if these could be regarded as unfair. This paper examines …