Valve Facing Legal Trouble over Steam Agreement

Valve Software could be facing legal trouble in Europe thanks to Steam’s End User License Agreement. The Federation of German Consumer Organization (known as the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. in German, or VZBV) has given Valve until October 10th to respond to a claim that its recently-modified user agreement is unfair to consumers. If Valve doesn’t respond, the group will seek to “resolve the dispute in the court.”

The VZBV believes Valve’s agreement coerces users into accepting, as hitting "cancel" when the agreement pops up prevents users from logging into their accounts. The group believes this leads to "disadvantaged" Steam users and that Valve should uphold a recent ruling by the EU Court of Justice that users should be able to resell digital software.

Recently, Valve has been in the news for its Big Picture Mode beta, sweeping changes to Steam’s community and launch of Steam Greenlight. Last week, reports of Valve’s hardware plans continued circulating, including the fact that its first hardware beta could come as soon as next year.

We’ve reached out to Valve for comment about the Federation of German Consumer Organization’s claims and will update with any statement we receive.

Source: CinemaBlend

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Dredd is Dead at the Box Office

Audiences had no trouble with Jennifer Lawrence's curves this weekend as her first big post-Hunger Games release, House at the End of the Street, topped the domestic box office. Hot on its heels was the acclaimed cop thriller End of Watch, while Clint Eastwood's baseball drama Trouble With The Curve posted a surprisingly disappointing third place debut.

But no film had a more disappointing opening this weekend (at least for fanboys) than Dredd 3D. Those who saw the reboot by and large loved it. The problem was that no one else showed up for it. The Karl Urban/Lena Headey starrer bowed in sixth place with even less than the meager openings that had been predicted for it.

Here are the weekend estimates via Rentrak:

1. House at the End of the Street $13 million
2. End of Watch $13 million
3. Trouble With The Curve $12.7 million
4. Finding Nemo 3D $9.4 million
5. Resident Evil: Retribution 3D $6.7 million
6. Dredd 3D $6.3 million
7. The Master $5 million
8. The Possession $2.6 million
9. Lawless $2.3 million
10. ParaNorman $2.3 million

Listen to Keepin' It Reel to find out how we did with our box office predictions!

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