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Wait, outside Europe?
Some countries make it illegal to buy certain video games. If Valve can't geoblock sale of them outside Europe, how are they supposed to conform with both sets of laws?
I remember that the EU didn't want country-specific pricing inside the EU, and had some case over that. That I get, because I can see the EU having an interest in not wanting it creating problems for mobility around the EU. But I hadn't heard about the EU going after vendors for not selling things outside Europe.
The article is shit. In the official response they talk about the following countries, none of them is outside Europe: Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_170