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FWIW, I heard about this paper when it was mentioned in this Planet Money episode following up on their lootbox episode: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcri
by danso 7y ago
FWIW, I heard about this paper when it was mentioned in this Planet Money episode following up on their lootbox episode:
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=769484887 https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
> JOHNSON: This is Thomas Hansfield. He's a law student at the University of Minnesota who wrote the perfect article for our story today. And we didn't even ask him to. Maybe nobody asked him to.
> HANSFIELD: Pretty shocked that anyone had actually read this.
> JOHNSON: Tommy's blog post for the Minnesota Law Review is all about how Loot Box lawsuits may end up a lot like a bunch of lawsuits that happened way back - ancient history - in the '90s.
> HANSFIELD: The title of the article is "Loot Box Lottery: How The Backlash Against Video Game Loot Boxes Is Affecting Game Developers, Retailers, And Consumers In The Legal Sphere."
His summarized conclusion is that the class action lawsuits that failed against baseball card makers suggest that loot box-related lawsuits might be similarly defeated.