{"id":4757,"date":"2016-03-30T09:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:43:54","slug":"valve-found-guilty-of-breaching-australian-consumer-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/valve-found-guilty-of-breaching-australian-consumer-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve found guilty of breaching Australian Consumer Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4758\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/27131845\/steam-logo-6001.jpg\" alt=\"steam-logo-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After an 18-month battle, the Federal Court has ruled that Valve was in breach of Australian consumer law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The competition watch dog found that Valve, via Steam, &#8220;engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or misleading representations to Australian consumers about the consumer guarantees.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A year and a half ago the ACCC took umbrage that Valve didn&#8217;t have a refund policy, which is something you need under Australian Consumer law.<\/p>\n<p>One has been implemented since but that doesn&#8217;t cover the period and issues back in 2014 when the case was initially filed.<\/p>\n<p>Now losing their argument that Valve didn&#8217;t in fact operate from Australia which absolved them of needing the policy they&#8217;ll have to foot up to 65% of the ACCC&#8217;s legal bill and potential damages.<\/p>\n<p>The actual costs will be decided in a hearing set for April 15th.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvpacific.com\/news\/read\/the-accc-finds-valve-breached-australian-consumer-law\/0164701\">The ACCC finds Valve breached Australian Consumer Law | Asia Pacific games industry news | MCV Pacific<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After an 18-month battle, the Federal Court has ruled that Valve was in breach of Australian consumer law.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}