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Steam and 5 publishers fined for geoblocking (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Good, fuck geoblocking. Bandai 340k Capcom 396k Focus 2.8m Koch 1m Zenimax 1.6m Valve 1.6m

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_170

Judgement from the EU court of justice: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-09/cp230147en.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

The publishers provided those keys to their distributors for sale and distribution of the PC video games in the Member States concerned. As a result, users located outside a designated Member State were prevented from activating a given PC video game with Steam activation keys.

The Commission found that by bilaterally agreeing to geo-block certain PC video games from outside a specific territory, Valve and each publisher partitioned the EEA market in violation of EU antitrust rules.

Good.