Product Liability for Software: The 2024 Directive

For forty years it was arguable that software was not a product, and therefore not covered by strict liability. Directive (EU) 2024/2853 ends that argument, applies to products placed on the market from 9 December 2026, and reaches cloud services a device depends on. It also lets courts order disclosure of your evidence and presume defectiveness when complexity makes proof excessively difficult. This path follows the Directive: what is now a product, what counts as a defect, who pays for what, and how a claim is proved.