That’s why I made this, share it, do yourself a favor and research. You can understand Linux, you can understand how to find documents of the lawsuits.
So is there a point/context to this post or…?
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Lawsuits and Violation
A list with detail explanation of all the lawsuits and verdict.
The list is made to bring awareness of Valve Corp attempts to disobey the law.
ACCC vs Valve Corp
Violation: Not offering refunds for the people of Australia.
Extra fines: Valve was found to lie to the courts. The company had to pay an extra fine for lying.
Valve tried to appeal, the case was brought to The High Court. It was decided by The High Court, Valve Corp to pay the violation.
European Commission vs Valve Corp
Violation: Digital Single Market
Valve Corp, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Focus Home Interactive, Koch Media and ZeniMax Media.
Where found to sign contracts to have an illegal agreement for geo-blocking through the Steam storefront and Steam product keys to prevent access to software to citizens of certain countries
Valve remain the only one to refuse to pay. The case went to the appeals and was rejected. Valve must pay the €1.6 million fine.
Corsair vs Valve Corp
Violation: violating the patent
Valve Corp, sold (unknown amount) of “Steam Controller”. Corsair brought “Scuf Gaming” and found their patent inside the “Steam Controller”.
Original first case
The trial took place in 2021 over Zoom with the jury returning a verdict of willful infringement by Valve and awarding over $4 million in damages to Corsair. Valve appeal.
Second fight in court
Valve claim unfair trial, the judge found no abnormal proceedings. The error however did come from Corsair on the evidence paper, not really a thing to appeal but Valve tried for the second time, under lack of evidence.
Third Appeal
Valve Corp claims lack of evidence and papers file incorrectly. The judge did not find any lack of evidence. Paper files were later fixed as instructed. Valve appeal again.
Fourth Appeal
Valve then blames, PTAB practitioner. The “Skilled Searcher”, is using newer art. If true the case could be brought back due to lack of evidence.
Still ongoing as of 2024
F.A.Q
Where are the other reminding cases?
They were not included due to Valve winning and the party giving up. Valve is known to stall trials to win the cases.
Who is/are Ironburg?
The company was brought out by Scuf Gaming. Soon later, Corsair Gaming brought both. Yes, Corsair was aware of the lawsuit when court proceedings were happening.
Why is Ironburg consider a patent troll?
Youtubers and news media created the false identity during the patent troll trend. Many were accused but no real legal matter happen to any company.
What is the story behind Overcharge Arbitration?
Under the Steam User Agreement, you can not sue Valve Corp and all matters go to Arbitration proceedings. You risk, your account being locked or banned. The lawyers who are bring an entire army of cases, seeks fair pay. Valve has Overcharge people in different events, these include game, fees, agreements and out right refusing returns.
What is the story behind Wolfire Games?
Valve Corp fees everyone a certain percentage to allow gamedevs to upload their games to Steam. Wolfire Games finds it unfair. Valve made deals with big publishers to cut cost, if you sell over
1 million sales. Lawsuit happens, Wolfire Games lost and appeal. The court finds Valve is within antitrust for The United States. If Valve Corp loses, they will be in the position as Google and Apple.
Case is still on going.
You should have made this a text submission so that screenreader or people in general can also read that.
Valve certainly has skeletons in their closet, but they are using their monopoly much better than their competitors.
They legitimately run a good service that’s more customer focused than their opposition, which are either not being competitive or trying to bruteforce their monopoly.
I think you meant “concerning”?
Sorry but I don’t see anything particularly egregious in there. It’s all fairly common stuff, any sufficiently big company is going to face some lawsuits of that sort at some point. Also, remember that anyone can file a lawsuit, it doesn’t mean that the recipient is guilty of what it describes or that the filer isn’t just exploiting technicalities.
Nothing there blatantly screams “bad company” from what I can see.
