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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It was punishing the consumer rather than the distributors abusing the regional pricing.

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Yes, but it was the part they have control over. The alternative is not having regional pricing allowing lower income countries to buy games at all.

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