French court rules country's Steam users can resell their games

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Gameguru Mania News - Sep,20 2019 -

French court rules country's Steam users can resell their games - briefly
(hx) 10:49 PM CEST - Sep,20 2019 - Post a comment / read (4)
The District Court of Paris has issued a ruling saying that French owners of digital games on Steam are permitted to resell them under EU law. Next Inpact reports that the court ruled in favor of the French consumer interest group Union federale des consommateurs, the Federal Union of Consumers on a number of clauses including the issue of digital resales. The Federal Union of Consumers has been pursuing Valve for several years now over numerous issues in the Steam Subscriber Agreement. This particular ruling by the French court looks at Valve's claim that consumers do not actually purchase a digital product when they buy a game -- rather, they purchase a subscription to access and use content and services on Steam. The court's ruling classifies these sales as digital licenses rather than subscriptions, thus allowing them to be resold in the same way that physical games have been resellable. Per the court, the prohibition against digital resales violates EU laws that maintain "the free movement of goods within the Union." All goods sold within the EU must be able to be resold without permission from the person who originally sold them. Additionally, the court says Steam's terms claim a number of other rights Valve does not actually have, including keeping wallet funds without reimbursement when users leave the platform, relinquishing responsibility if users incur harm using the platform, as well as certain rights regarding mod use, user-submitted content, and account termination. A total of fourteen clauses were determined to be unacceptable.

last 10 comments:

Csimbi	(12:28 PM CEST - Sep,21 2019 )
Good stuff, agree on all points, I do. Too much of a capitalist venture Steam is. User-friendly, it not. Ask Yoda.

Tom	(06:29 PM CEST - Sep,21 2019 )
Csimbi> Good stuff, agree on all points, I do. Too much of a capitalist venture Steam is. User-friendly, it not. Ask Yoda. Agree with allowing reselling. Disagree with the rest of your bullshit. Can you resell on any other store or platform? That's not shady no. Go hate somewhere else.

gx-x

(04:39 AM CEST - Sep,22 2019 )

Tom> Csimbi> Good stuff, agree on all points, I do.
Too much of a capitalist venture Steam is.
User-friendly, it not.
Ask Yoda.

Agree with allowing reselling. Disagree with the rest of your bullshit. Can you resell on any other store or platform? That's not shady no. Go hate somewhere else.

[email protected] for game xyz. Easy sell. And I don't like doing that. When I get the game it clearly states "purchase" not "rent" or anything like that. So thanks, I'd like to sell this game i got bored with.

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