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UK Games Retailers Threaten Boycott of Steam Games
RogueyWon writes "Games industry trade site MCV is reporting that two major UK video games retailers are threatening to ban Steam-enabled PC games from their stores. The as-yet-unnamed retailers are apparently concerned that by selling Steam games, they are pointing their customers towards a competitor and will by trying to bring pressure upon publishers to strip Steam functionality from their games. This could prove an interesting test of where the real power lies at the retail end of PC gaming."
Yeah, the whole idea is rather amusing. It's like an independent book store threatening to stop selling any books that are also available in eBook format.
Good luck guys, you are just guaranteeing that you will get left behind.
which is totally what she said
Yeah, thanks for that completely pointless contribution.
Steam's legal footing looks pretty good to me. IANAL, but neither are you, and at least I was aware of recent case law movement on this issue. Why you weren't is puzzling, considering that it's been covered pretty extensively and recently here.
The reason is because of banal, annoying comments like this that reek of self-righteousness that caused me to walk away from Slashdot for awhile. So, in short... stuff off.