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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoI just think, if it went to court, Valve would MC’s lunch. So I’m not sure they should be worried about being in breach of terms (that they haven’t even breached).
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoI just think, if it went to court, Valve would MC’s lunch. So I’m not sure they should be worried about being in breach of terms (that they haven’t even breached).
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I hear you, but I wouldn’t go that far.
You think Steam is a money printing machine?
MC and Visa are payment processors.
Literally every credit or debit transaction that involves them? Oh yeah, they shave a penny or two or sometimes more off of that transaction.
Thats a fucking money printing machine, they unironically have at least 10,000x more money to throw at lawyers than Valve does.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
It doesn’t matter how many lawyers you have, when Valve is literally simply not in violation of the terms of their contract.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
And it is the legal system that determines whether or not a contract has or has not been breached.
Just like it is also the legal system that determines whether or not a company is a harfmul monopoly.
Your opinion is one I agree with, but that isn’t how things work, therr has to be an official arbiter that agrees with or disagrees with that, and those arbiters are called courts, which are full of lawyers making arguments, and the best lawyers tend to cost the most money.
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Also… what, is Valve going to sue Visa and MC for… Visa and MC choosing not to do business with them?
There is no legal mechanism that forces Visa and MC to do business with Valve, that punishes Visa and MC should they choose not to.
This is like suing a person at a farmer’s market for not buying an apple.
Or, that is roughly what Visa and MC’s lawyers would argue.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I don’t think Valve would sue MC. They would just ignore the demands that conflict with their agreement (i.e. removing games that aren’t illegal), and the honus would be on MC to sue Valve.
Which they probably wouldn’t, unless I’m mistaken about the terms of the contract. Which is certainly possible.