# Their terms, your rights — The Steam Dossier

> Legal and economic analysis of the Steam Subscriber Agreement, arbitration clause, automated enforcement and market rules.

Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis
Language: en
Publisher: PhishDestroy
Author: PhishDestroy Team

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## Reading

- [Published page](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis)
- [Complete Markdown](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis.html.md)
- [Complete plain-text version](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis/llms-full.txt)
- [Investigation index](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/llms.txt)

## Sections

- [Liability waiver and the revocable licence](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#ssa)
- [2.1 The "subscription" model vs. property rights](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#ssa)
- [2.2 The refund illusion vs. the EU Consumer Rights Directive](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#ssa)
- [Secondary Market and Antitrust](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#courts)
- [UFC Que Choisir v. Valve — France](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#courts)
- [Wolfire Games antitrust — United States (In re Valve Antitrust Litigation, No. 2:21-cv-00563)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#courts)
- [Valve Official Confession: Worldwide Fraud Liquidations (28 October 2019)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#courts)
- [A rights-holder in Russia, unreachable to the user](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#selective-jurisdiction)
- [Valve v. Touch Skins — pre-trial IP claim, Russia](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#selective-jurisdiction)
- [The same jurisdiction, the other direction](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#selective-jurisdiction)
- [The Arbitration Clause Capitulation](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#arbitration)
- [VACNet, Presumption of Guilt, and False Positives](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#vacnet)
- [Control over virtual assets and the resale fee](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#economy)
- [The 15% CS2 market fee — value removed on each resale](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#economy)
- [CS2 trade-up rule change — October 2025](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#economy)
- [UOKiK, DSA, and the Digital Fairness Act](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#eu)
- [Documented gaps between the rules and the record](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis#conclusion)