German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games

sfcrazy writes "A German court has dismissed a 'reselling' case in favor of Valve Software, the maker of Steam OS. German consumer group Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv) had filed a complaint against Valve as Valve's EULA (End User License Agreement) prohibits users from re-selling their games. What it means is that German users can't resell their Steam Games."

Re:Wow more free FB...

[Sique]

That's not the legal situation within the E.U.. The European High Court has actually ruled that it makes no difference if there is a physical medium or not, a sale is a sale, and the First Sale doctrin applies. Thus, lets wait for the appeal. (The article actually mentions the decision about downloaded software, if you are interested, it's UsedSoft vs. Oracle C-128/11.)

Regional Court

[silanea]

This is a decision by a regional court. They universally suck at rulings regarding any technology invented after 1900. A state court recently held a domain registrar responsible [heise.de] for copyright infringement. And nevermind the treasure trove of truly grotesque copyright-related rulings coming out of the city-state of Hamburg - they are legendary here in Germany, similar to patent cases in Texas.

This is bound to be appealed, and our higher courts usually fare better when it comes to dealing with Das Internet.

Re:Fascinating ruling

[Anonymous Coward]

Reddit is good for low brow stuff - too much noise there and repeated jokes.

Try Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/ [ycombinator.com]

Re:From the courtroom

[Kartu]

I'm not German, learned it when I was in mid 20th and I have no problem whatsoever pronouncing (or reading) it.
There are words I struggle with (e.g. Eichhörnchen) but these are none of them.

Also take into account that being long doesn't necessarily mean being complex, long German words are often combined out of very frequently used words, which are easy to recognize.

What you've cited are actually 4 words. Verbraucher-zentralle Bundes-verband.