Technology

59676 readers

3850 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

850

Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

281 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

not sure what EU should do here

[–] crossmr@kbin.social 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://publicknowledge.org/eu-court-when-you-buy-software-you-own-it/

The EU has already taken care of it.

The Court of Justice of the European Union found that a
copyright owner exhausts the right of distribution to a copy of a computer
program once he sells, or authorizes the sale of, the copy. This means that whoever purchased the
computer program can resell it and the copyright holder cannot control the
resale of the copy. The Court found that
this exhaustion principle applies whether the copy is on a tangible medium like
a CD-ROM or DVD or an intangible download from the Internet, and it also
applies to corrected and updated programs that the copyright owner sells. Furthermore, the Court made clear that contract
clauses that deny the customer the right to transfer his copy of the computer
program are void.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So, we can in the EU? But they provide no way of doing so without giving the account over.

[–] crossmr@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, like refunds it'll probably get sorted the first time someone's estate with a bit of money tries to will it to someone and then they take Valve to court/make a complaint to the EU.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

We gotta get these generational backlogs started

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

When you buy something you should be able to pass it on or sell it to someone else. This "the software not sold, only licensed" BS should be illegal. Either you rent with a monthly fee, or you buy it and own it. Owning something means you can sell it to someone else.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Either you rent with a monthly fee, or you buy it and own it.

Of those two options, you know which one the publishers would pick...

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

Regulate digital purchases.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Work into immortality, ofc.