Have you been trading with a Russian user? Have you been using a VPN to activate games? Have you used a VPN to buy games from another region?
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Not knowing if something is illegal does not make it legal, duh.
It's your fault for not reading the ToS.
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No. It's "technically legal" in Europe to sell used downloadable games, not the account. However, the digital license must be deactivated first in order for it to be sold. (reference article)
To answer elix's doubt, this condition would override the laws and regulations of countries outside the European Union.
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I'm no expert in commerce law and international jurisdiction. I suppose doing business in the EU means you have to obey their laws at least with respect to customers located within the EU, makes sense. But still, it's a moot point because the ruling doesn't cover transferring ownership of entire accounts, anyway. It's just restoring parity with the doctrine of first sale capabilities you have with tangible media.
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...yeah, I'm concurring with what you said. I admitted that I could very well have missed the "doing business in the Eurozone = implied jurisdiction" thing... but that it didn't matter anyway for the reason you mentioned.
I'm sorry for not also saying "Like you said," to be clear.
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Not a smart thing to do. Steam has a zero stance on trading accounts, it seems unlikely for it to get unbanned. Even if it does get unbanned you won't know the history of the account so you might flagged with a VAC ban because the seller decided it would have been fun to use hacks once.
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Your account is banned - forever and ever and ever...
Banned from trading - for 2 weeks.
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I wonder how will the EU court rulling, that such thinks are illegal (prohibiting users from selling what they own), will affect such situations.
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Additionally, I doubt either of us are lawyers, but I dare say there's a difference between selling a game (an item of property that can be purchased and, if it was a hard copy, like a book, resold without any problems) and selling an account.
Go ahead and try and sell your drivers' license, lol. (Okay, a license is different from a Steam account, but only because you can't kill a family of three by crashing into them at 110km/h with a Steam account.)
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So on day I logged in my account and got 2 alerts from steam :
This account has violated the Steam Terms of Service Agreement.
This account has been flagged by Steam Support for violations of the Terms of Service Agreement. Purchasing, gifting, trading, and cd-key activation have been disabled.
Account functionality has been restricted.
If you believe you have received this message in error, please contact Steam Support so that we can assist you.
More info on this topic is available here: Steam Terms of Service Agreement.
and
Your trading privileges have been suspended for 2 weeks for violations of the Steam Trading Policy.
Trading privileges will be restored on 21 July 2012 at 2:26pm
More information on this topic is available here: Steam Trading Policy
I contacted them and they told me crap and told me my account will no be un-banned..
The question is if in the alert it says that my account will be resoterd on 21 july it will be restored or not ? since steam support told me they will never un-ban me
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