Valve loses a court case in the EU and has to pay 1.6 million euros in fines for geoblocking • Mezha.Media
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The General Court of the European Union has upheld the decision to impose a fine for geo-blocking on Valve Corp. which owns the Steam digital game
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Suppose you are an European citizen and you live in Egypt.

I don’t think that is correct. The investigation began in 2015 by Margrethe Vestager. The focus is within the EU. Valve cannot prevent geo-blocking between EU countries. They’re free to use IP geo-blocking, but users within the EU must be given the ability to switch to different EU stores. I.e. a Dane must be allowed to log into the Hungary store and purchase games at the local price. This has implications for keys as well, as a Dane must not be prevented from redeeming a Hungarian key, for example.

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You’re correct, I expanded with real details and a source in another comment.

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