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That's what valve says. Luckily not everything in their nonsense license agreement is enforcable as a judge recently ruled: https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/19/20874384/french-court-stea...



Ok, so it seems to be that :

2012 EU ruling : "software is a good that can be resold"

2014 German ruling : "games are not just software, but also "art"(?), they can NOT be resold" https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/10/german-court-rul...

2019 French court ruling : "Steam accounts are just software(?), they can be resold" https://www.nextinpact.com/news/108209-ufc-que-choisir-vs-va...


But then a German court ruled otherwise, so the jurisprudence doesn't seem to be clear yet?


I cannot find a source for that. Care to share?


Not sure about Germany, but here's a thread about the French court decision: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/steam-forced-to-authorize-the...





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