• vaendryl@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    not very useful for something to be legal if they’re allowed to make it impossible to do.

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    11 months ago

    From reading the law, reselling of licenses is permitted but there’s nothing forcing software platforms to provide tools facilitating the process.

    IANAL but I think this would make reselling a Steam account within the EU perfectly legal, regardless of Steam’s TOS, but otherwise they’re unaffected.

    Edit: Looking at some of the actual law cases which followed this ruling, user accounts and video games (along with basically any creative work) are not covered in any way.

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    11 months ago

    Folks, this article was last updated July 2012. So for those of you moaning at people for pointing out you still cant because you can only do so by selling your account which steam does not allow…its been 11 years. When do the changes go into effect to allow you your high ground?

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    11 months ago

    Really curious what the EU would say about something like Overwatch 1.

    People bought a game, they then changed the game, made it free and shut down the systems for it and changed it to Overwatch 2.

    Now the game I bought doesn’t exist anymore. I don’t own anything of what I had purchased.

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    11 months ago

    This law was already overruled by other court decisions. EU Law is just a pain but basically you can’t.

  • Overall-Dig-4736@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, this is a law Steam breaks since foundation, nobod really cares unfortunetly. They even have a fucking platform for it. Probably it’s built in a way this could be implemented in a week, whenever authorities would start annoying Valve with it.