You might well be one of those users who are fed up with the speculation that haunts the web with graphics cards and consoles, where it’s next to impossible to get one at a price even close to the MSRP. The problem is much more serious as we saw last week, but since all is not going to be bad news, there is finally someone on the road to try and fix the problem. The first law against bots Mass buying is underway.
How to compete with a bot? And against several? Well, that’s practically impossible. There are bots to give and take, from those who use banks, speculators, investors to move money on the stock market, to those who buy and sell stocks or cryptocurrencies in milliseconds. But just as these are used for these purposes, there are also some to buy GPUs and consoles in record time and they manage to bypass all the restrictions in increasingly sophisticated ways.
EE.UU mueve ficha: Ley Stopping Grinch Bots Act
Now we know the United States is taking this issue seriously, especially in the face of Christmas and after months of work on Monday, the first law was introduced to stop bots from buying consoles, graphics cards and even gaming. very popular toys in the aforementioned country.
Curiously, this new law is based on an existing law which has been in force since 2016 and which regulates the sale of tickets, such as those for concerts or certain NBA, NFL or similar games. The draft is in identical form except for the qualifications relevant to where it is headed according to Charles Schumer, Majority Leader of the United States Senate, who argues the following:
The average vacation shopper cannot compete with the speed of light of the ordinary robot. Then resellers and third parties try to resell them when users try to buy Christmas gifts. After a particularly tough year, no parent or American should have to fork out hundreds or even thousands of dollars to buy Christmas and holiday gifts for loved ones.
And undoubtedly he is right, where this law also has the support of the Federation of Consumers and the National League of this country, it therefore has all the possible impulses, but it was not always so …
Two years of waiting and without guarantees
The truth is that this law as such does not offer close to 100% guarantees in the area of surveillance and enforcement, as it aims to make illegal the use of software or bots that circumvent the measures. stores, wholesalers and retailers that have been set up to try to block the practice of mass buying.
The law was introduced in 2019 and has been the subject of debate, rework and revisions, the truth is that it was blocked for two years by both chambers because it did not satisfy both parties. And the point is, the political environment in the United States is widely split between the two major groups, so legislating is slow and tedious even in this climate of need.
Logically, this law only affects the United States, but other countries could already take the example, the EU first, as the matter has been twisted to elucidate speculation. Is this the beginning of the end for high prices for graphics cards and consoles? It doesn’t appear to be the case, but it could help with the change in Ethereum and the start of new GPUs with performance limitations and better locks.
