Posted December 04, 2020
Of course bans can be illegal. If you pay for a forum participation for example then "unjustified" bans are probably illegal in EU due to end user protection laws. If a credit card was used to pay then "unjustified" banning probably also runs afoul of the ToS between forum and credit card.
Whether there is a right or not obviously depends on the ToS (etc).
I dont know about the OP. I was not trying to imply that the OP was unjustly banned. I was referring to the implication in this thread that forum bans come with MP participation restrictions.
Lifthrasil: And even that would be legal for Steam. You don't buy games there. You buy a license to play them for as long as Steam keeps them available for you. That's the entire point of their DRM-scheme. You rent access to games and they can unilaterally cancel the lease contract. You don't own anything and so they don't take anything away that you own. Somehow you seem to have missed this part - link:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190920/09224543030/french-court-declares-that-steam-gamers-actually-do-own-what-they-bought.shtml
So far as I know actual legal precedent in EU suggests that you do indeed 'own' your Steam games. (But far as I know this isnt final yet.)
Whether there is a right or not obviously depends on the ToS (etc).
I dont know about the OP. I was not trying to imply that the OP was unjustly banned. I was referring to the implication in this thread that forum bans come with MP participation restrictions.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190920/09224543030/french-court-declares-that-steam-gamers-actually-do-own-what-they-bought.shtml
So far as I know actual legal precedent in EU suggests that you do indeed 'own' your Steam games. (But far as I know this isnt final yet.)