If you have a dispute with Valve you have to hire a lawyer to take them to court. No "third party" mediation

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Previously if you had a dispute with Steam you would go to a mediator appointed Valve and you discuss things with Valve and come to an agreement. Sounds good, as it doesn't mean you have to involve lawyers.
Until you realise, Valve is paying for the mediator so the mediator has an incentive to agree with Valve to keep the business. In addition, any agreement is purely between you and Valve. It effects no one else, any previous agreement between Valve and the previous person has no bearing.

Contrast that to going to court, court decisions are binding and are able to be used in other court proceedings.

The problem is all the buying is purely so they can tick boxes on an insurance form.

We see it with our customers all the time, they request thing for cyber insurance reasons like a SIEM or EDR, but no one is checking the systems.

[His] opinion asserts that manipulating transient data generated during gameplay through third-party software does not infringe copyright according to the EU’s Computer Programs Directive. This distinction between protecting a game’s code and the temporary data it generates is a very significant one for all developers of game-enhancing tools.

The Advocate General also highlighted that the variable values in question are not original works of the game’s author but result from player interactions and game progression, which are unpredictable and dynamic. Since they depend on unforeseeable factors, these values lie beyond the author’s creative control.

That is an interesting distinction, the code to generate your health total is copyright but the actual health value you modify with cheats is not.

Don't need to image. I have run an ISP for near a decade and know how.

If you genuinely want to I would say have a look into Cisco or Juniper service provider certifications. Then look into how to run your own authoritative DNS server.

No matter how bad it gets, there is always you to show it could be worse.

Sounds like a fun community to kick off /C/curatedfeeds or something where you can say I searched for X on platform Y and got this. What did you lot get.

Na, out of sight out of mind.

What kind of horseshit is this?

characters in a fictional show who happen to be atheist are wrong..... Because they exist in a show. That's your argument?

Clearly what they need is more management layers and SCRUM masters to streamline the game creation process.

Now do a 5 year graph and realise it's kinda back to pre pandemic levels.