nvidia: here's your hardware, paying customer.

customer: Tha-

us govt: no, i want it! mine!! mine mine mine mine mine!

buying the PC required that they fill in a form and have their drivers license scanned, connecting their name to their purchase.

What if the buyer decides to sell the system or its GPU second-hand years later and that person then sells it overseas? What if the system is stolen and ends up abroad?

One comment on the thread also claims that Micro Center also won't sell an RTX 5090 to a customer if they've ever bought one in the past.

Sounds like ITAR or EAR. Assuming EAR: Welcome to the minefield that is buying a firearm. If it winds up overseas and someone decides to throw the book at you then it's a federal felony. With that driver's license scanned I'm sure it'll be protected very well, so there's no need to worry. If you got a prebuilt through Costco, your purchase probably got recorded through their membership system (or that information could be reported retroactively if the rule is new).

I remember this being an issue for the Playstation 3 (or was it 2) back in the day. Is there anything more recent than the 5090 that this has been applied to?

I would be tempted to sell it overseas out of spite. Also I like lying to corpos, so me promising anything to them is like throwing a hotdog down a hallway.

Papers, please!

We are a fucking joke of a country at this point.

Not if you don't live in the US. Mind you, it'll still cost as much as a small car so its not exactly straight forward.

What is the point of that, does the US need to keep consumer cards in the hands of random citizens for some reason? UK here and I could just buy one and not have that restriction surely.

What stops someone from reselling within the US. They didn't sign the agreement with Micro Center.

Something tells me this is the AI companies not wanting people to run local AI models in other countries.

Daily most people agree to worse than a non enforceable rag like this

lol, it has a microcenter letter head. If it was a legal declaration as required by export controls / law, it would be a real fucking legal form from the US government. This looks like a hilarious data grab. Slimey fucks.