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Valve Wins: Digital Resale Of Games Impossible

Post Date: 2014-02-10
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    Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 8:30am


Valve has won a landmark case in Germany, setting the precedent for the 1st sale doctrine not to apply to digital games. In plain English, this has made digital resale of games impossible.

As a brief refresher, Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, which translates to Federation of German Consumer Organisations, and is known as VZBZ for short, brought the issue to Valve. VZBZ is a nongovernment, nonprofit umbrella association, that represents Germany’s different consumer rights organizations.

VZBZ made the case that Valve has to comply with a European Union decision from 2012 that states that companies cannot stop consumers from reselling digital product. That case involved Oracle products, and the decision then was that consumers could resell Oracle license keys to each other, as long as the seller was no longer using the key.


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