Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted October 11 Diamond Member Share Posted October 11 There comes a point in most experienced Steam shoppers' lives where they wonder what would happen if their account was canceled or stolen, or perhaps This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . It's scary to think about how many games in your backlog will never get played; scarier, still, to think about how you don't, in most real senses of the word, own any of them. Now Valve, seemingly working to comply with This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up targeting "false advertising" of "digital goods," has added language to its checkout page to confirm that thinking. "A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam," the Steam cart now tells its customers, with a link to the Steam Subscriber Agreement further below. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Sept. 26, excludes subscription-only services, free games, and digital goods that offer "permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet." Otherwise, sellers of digital goods cannot use the terms "buy, purchase," or related terms that would "confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good." And they must explain, conspicuously, in plain language, that "the digital good is a license" and link to terms and conditions. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/147919-steam-steam-now-reminds-you-that-it-really-sells-%E2%80%9Ca-license%E2%80%9D-for-a-%E2%80%9Cdigital-product%E2%80%9D/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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