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Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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"The litigation will progress until Valve obeys" sounds an awful lot like extortion.
They are clearly trying to double/triple dip on shit that already been paid for and licensed.
Whats next?
Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?
Lest we forget, Unity tried to do just that and walked back due to backlash.
Unity never tried that? They wanted to charge the developer using Unity. It was stupid, but they pay for unity one way or another.
This is how it’s been done for decades now? Every game you purchase off of Steam, Xbox, PlayStation is just a license to play that game.
Really?
I don't recall having to pay a fee every time I redownload or reinstall my game...ever
Suggest reading into software licensing and understand the different types of licenses that could be used.
Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they've walked it back.
So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They're all pay once, download in perpetuity.
Don’t get me wrong here, I understand the pushback from the community in this regard and i’m not try to defend proprietary software licensing.
I’m more of letting the original commenter know that they actually don’t own the game or game files they purchase from common store-fronts, they simply own a license to download and play the game.
Sure buddy.
Username checks out.
Of course, buddy.
Sounds like you’re describing yourself here.
Refused to accept documentation from a valid source.
Instead of having a discussion, you proceed with a pointless “Sure, buddy” at an attempt to deflect from the topic.
You chose to make the two comments above, I simply humoured your ignorance and lack of understanding of the subject.
Sure buddy.
Keep it up, maybe you'l get to pay a license fee for repeatedly posting, too.
Someone’s butthurt, do you want a cookie to ease the pain?
Yeah, like isn't this steam's schtick? You give up a third of the purchases for them to just handle this kinda shit? I'm not defending them, just stating.
Edit: hive mind activated.
Steam is a game Plattform, not a game publisher
Half life 3 fans in shambles.
real disappointed all that HL3 hype a month or 3 back ultimately ended up being a big fat fart of nothing.
First time?
nope. Just a frustrated, blueballed gamer sick and tired of shit ending in clifhangers with no finish.
Doent help that valve have openly admitted in the past that they have little interest in making games outside of experiments to play with new technologies, who cares about the players invested in the narratives they've created and refuse to bring any conclusion too.
Confirmed!
With Game publisher I meant that Steam neither published GTA, nor any other games listed there