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Its pretty explicit in the agreement terms that you need to separately click to agree on every purchase: > Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive
by zokier 4y ago
Its pretty explicit in the agreement terms that you need to separately click to agree on every purchase:
> Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms). This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license. The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services
> F. Ownership of Content and Services
> All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Content and Services and any and all copies thereof, are owned by Valve and/or its or its affiliates’ licensors. All rights are reserved, except as expressly stated herein. The Content and Services are protected by copyright laws, international copyright treaties and conventions and other laws. The Content and Services contain certain licensed materials and Valve’s and its affiliates’ licensors may protect their rights in the event of any violation of this Agreement.
> G. Restrictions on Use of Content and Services
> You may not use the Content and Services for any purpose other than the permitted access to Steam and your Subscriptions, and to make personal, non-commercial use of your Subscriptions, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement or applicable Subscription Terms. Except as otherwise permitted under this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use), or under applicable law notwithstanding these restrictions, you may not, in whole or in part, copy, photocopy, reproduce, publish, distribute, translate, reverse engineer, derive source code from, modify, disassemble, decompile, create derivative works based on, or remove any proprietary notices or labels from the Content and Services or any software accessed via Steam without the prior consent, in writing, of Valve.
> You are entitled to use the Content and Services for your own personal use, but you are not entitled to: (i) sell, grant a security interest in or transfer reproductions of the Content and Services to other parties in any way, nor to rent, lease or license the Content and Services to others without the prior written consent of Valve, except to the extent expressly permitted elsewhere in this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use); (ii) host or provide matchmaking services for the Content and Services or emulate or redirect the communication protocols used by Valve in any network feature of the Content and Services, through protocol emulation, tunneling, modifying or adding components to the Content and Services, use of a utility program or any other techniques now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose including, but not limited to network play over the Internet, network play utilizing commercial or non-commercial gaming networks or as part of content aggregation networks, websites or services, without the prior written consent of Valve; or (iii) exploit the Content and Services or any of its parts for any commercial purpose, except as expressly permitted elsewhere in this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use).
- thn-gap 4y agoI hope for regulations to protect consumers by not allowing to advertise this as a "buying action" if you later have to through the entire lengthy terms and services to figure out that they are not really selling this to you, but rather licensing.
- charcircuit 4y agoIt is a buying action. You are buying the right to play it for noncommercial purposes.
- reset-password 4y ago> Its pretty explicit in the agreement terms that you need to separately click to agree on every purchase Which illustrates a large part of the problem. The sales page is designed to deceive you with the expectation that a very small number of customers will ever see and read through those terms. The terms by the way are 4,676 words and would take an average reader more than 15 minutes to read even if it wasn't obtusely written legalese. Should that be legal and OK? To me this seems like an area where the offer needs to be plainly stated, and since that isn't happening then perhaps a consumer protection agency needs to step in. (edit: previous word count was from the wrong version of the terms)
- EMIRELADERO 4y agoIt's worth noting that many jurisdictions, if the time came where a court would see this, would have a public policy issue with those terms.
- anigbrowl 4y agoIts pretty explicit in the agreement terms IDGAF, just because you wave a license agreement around doesn't free you from the moral responsibility to be honest about what you're selling. If you say BUY NOW and then bury specific redefinitions of 'buy' in a 5,000 word contract then you are engaged in deception. Just because it's legal doesn't mean you're not running a fraud, it's just a particularly elaborate and narrowly specified one. It's not that I don't understand contract language, but most people don't and there's a reason most service contracts are rendered in 5 point type and optimized for leverage rather than clarity. I rarely bother to pirate anything, but lose zero sleep over the phenomenon because so many corporations engage in deceptive practices.