Tim
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Fredward said:Tim said:I've just been talking about this with my brother and he's found out something quite interesting. Apparently by EU law it is the consumers right to be able to resell or lend a product. He was telling me that there was a case where someone sewed Steam for not being able to sell off their game and the court ruled in their favour. Afraid I don't have any more details though.
Afraid I don't think that's possible. Sorry for calling you out. But You don't buy games on Steam, you buy licenses, essentially permissions to play the games. In all purposes you own the game, you don't have any less rights, but you do not own the content of the game. you have permission to use it and access it. Which means Steam is exempt from the laws to resell or lend a product because you haven't purchased any product.
But a licence is all you buy for a hard copy version as well. At least that's what they say in the massive T&C list that you're meant to read but no one ever does. Steam and other digital distributor's just took it literally by removing all physical parts of the product.
As for if this incident really did happen I can't say for sure but my Brother tends to know his stuff on these things (way more than I do) and I've got to admit the case sounds familiar.