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0 pointsbombcar3y ago0 comments

One thing I can think of immediately is that smaller companies may have to implement something now that wasn't there - whereas larger can easily absorb the cost.

I've seen "subscription forms" that don't actually process anything, they just save the info in a database for someone to manually do stuff with later. These companies will now have to work out how to do a cancel button.

Arguably, they should have to anyway, and it's not likely to be a big issue, but these types of legislation are often used to make a "moat" for established players that new ones find hard to cross.

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tzs3y ago

Despite the title all the bill actually requires is that the company allow cancellation over the internet if the subscription was bought over the internet. No actual clickable cancel button is required. In particular handling it by email is fine under the bill.

bombcarOP3y ago

Yeah, I was stretching to try to come up with an example. In this case, it sounds like a good all around.

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