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Texas

What protections exist today

Texas has no digital-goods-specific consumer law. The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices–Consumer Protection Act (DTPA, Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §17.41 et seq.) is a strong general UDAP statute with an enumerated "laundry list" of prohibited practices, a private right of action, and up to treble damages for knowing violations. Misrepresenting the nature of a digital "purchase" could fall within the DTPA's misrepresentation provisions, though this has not been tested for digital goods.

What's missing

No disclosure, refund/restitution, or offline-copy/continuity requirement exists for digital purchases. Any protection would rely on applying the general DTPA to digital-ownership labeling, which has not occurred.

Tracked legislation

No digital-ownership bills tracked for Texas yet.

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