This would be an excellent addition to consumer protection law - setting the terms under which the words "sale" or "sell" or "own" could be used when paying for

This would be an excellent addition to consumer protection law - setting the terms under which the words "sale" or "sell" or "own" could be used when paying for digital goods. Obviously gamers should push for disclosure - only allowing words like "own" to be used if the seller retained no further power to disable or affect your use of the digital content. If the seller did intend to impose further restrictions on your use of the digital content, they would only be allowed to use words like "rent" or "lease" or "license" to describe the transaction. So a transfer of an unencumbered MP3 file would be allowed to be called a "sale", but a transfer of a DRM file which has to contact authorization servers in order to play would be only a rental, lease, or license. There is plenty of precedent for this - many words have requirements attached when selling items to the public.