Sacred Symbols+, Episode 534 | On Digital Ownership, Tariff Rebates, and arcade.gov Drama (Patreon)

It's me, Colin. Please welcome long-time friend-of-the-show, lawyer, and LSM legal analyst Rick Hoeg back to Sacred+. Mr. Hoeg returns with a trio of topics to discuss, issues of a more academic variety that we haven't necessarily gotten into deeply enough on the flagship program. We split our conversation into three primary parts, the first focusing on the Trump administration's release of arcade.gov, a politically-charged smorgasbord of parody and spoof games. Where does copyright infringement end and freedom of speech begin? Second, we go into the ongoing saga surrounding digital ownership. Should governments threaten corporations into compliance, or does a softer means to an end exist? Finally, we jump into tariff rebates, and how you're unlikely to see anything from Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft. Bad government execution is responsible for billions in taxes being collected that don't actually need to be paid. So why is it that the consumer always seems to lose?