Resell your DIGITAL games?!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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21st floor tech news a new ruling by a
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french court has declared that steam does not sell subscriptions to its users
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like a netflix for games but instead sells licenses and consumers should have
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the right to do what they want with their purchases including reselling
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their digital goods the consumer rights group ufc
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french stuff they've been locked in a legal battle with valve corporation for
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years and now they say that they plan to challenge other digital markets and
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platforms who follow the same business model as part of the ruling steem now
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has to reimburse users any remaining currency in their steam wallet if the
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user's account is closed rather than just pocketing that paper like they
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currently do valve has appealed the ruling but if it goes through there
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could be a seismic shift in the way digital games are distributed and
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redistributed maybe you digital guys could give little game stop a helping
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hand huh think of the little guy huawei unveiled its flagship mate 30 and
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mate 30 pro smartphones in munich yesterday confirming that due to the
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trump administration's executive order banning u.s companies from doing
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business with huawei the devices do not
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come with any google apps no google maps
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no google chrome and most importantly no google play store uh
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you lost me at google maps i i refuse there's no other maps
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if i don't have my maps instead mate 30 users will have to surf the web through
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the huawei browser and download apps
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through the huawei app gallery which apparently has around 45 000 apps
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compared to the play store's estimated 2.7 million the mate 30 phones will
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instead be powered by open source Android running huawei's emui 10 their
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user interface that approximates google's Android 10. this means that
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huawei will only be able to bring security updates to the mate 30 phones
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when those updates hit open source Android but they've never been the
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fastest to roll out security updates anyway so that part
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probably won't be very different you see Colton you set the bar low
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no one's ever disappointed exactly that's my life
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as if amazon wasn't controlling enough sectors of the world alexa users will
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soon be able to donate money to the 2020 u.s presidential candidates through a
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to sign up to the system to be eligible and must have a whole host of us-based
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documentation such as bank accounts and addresses to prevent
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you know sending money to a pirate
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ahoy Colton once activated in your alexa purchasing
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settings alexa users can donate between a minimum of five dollars and a maximum
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of two hundred dollars through amazon pay to their chosen candidate by simply
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is there a way to tea bag a corpse in a vehicle
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doing a donut over them or something it's like i don't think so okay we got to stop disney plus doesn't launch until
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november but thanks to just watch you can already browse the streaming
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services 621 different movies and shows
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and plan out your re-watching of classics from fantasia to frozen before
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i thought you still were a child just watches database doesn't currently
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include upcoming releases such as star wars the mandalorian but disney's saying
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that it expects to spend over one billion dollars on original content
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promise of being a carbon neutral company by 2040 and claims that a
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hundred thousand electric delivery vehicles have been ordered to reduce
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fuel consumption while google says it's purchased of a 1600 megawatt package of
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renewable energy deals is the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy
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in history it's a lot of solar panels
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what are you good for cole
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all right you're off the hook that's it for the news today come back on monday
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ugh Colton please leave leave