‘Valve Corporation v. Users of Valve’s Video Game Platform, Steam’ is a real court case.
Is Valve suing gamers!? Not exactly: * Steam has been accused of being a PC gaming monopoly that extracts unreasonable fees * But Valve’s forced arbitration clause kept lawsuits at bay * So lawyers recruited thousands of gamers to do mass arbitration and force Valve to settle * Valve got rid of forced arbitration, but thousands of arbitrations continued * The 9th Circuit has agreed to hear Valve’s proposal to stop the mass arbitration; it’s consolidating those cases under this amusing new name.
Is Valve suing gamers!? Not exactly: * Steam has been accused of being a PC gaming monopoly that extracts unreasonable fees * But Valve’s forced arbitration clause kept lawsuits at bay * So lawyers recruited thousands of gamers to do mass arbitration and force Valve to settle * Valve got rid of forced arbitration, but thousands of arbitrations continued * The 9th Circuit has agreed to hear Valve’s proposal to stop the mass arbitration; it’s consolidating those cases under this amusing new name.
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