So one of his examples is that he bought stolen goods and when they were returned to the original owner he felt he deserved them as well? If he didn’t submit a charge back he’s complicit in supporting this fraud. The vendor should have offered to sell him a copy for the price he paid to the scammer instead.

I tried Jellyfin out on my most recent build - don’t think it’s quite as good as Plex so far. Still using it though - I think either is perfectly fine for a simple home media server.

I’m not sure they’d want the legal hassle.

As long as Steam allows skins trading these sites will exist. I can’t see them removing this feature from their community because of activity off their platform.

Locking a trading account and nuking the inventory just means that one site will shut down - the operator will likely just set up a new one and a while bunch of users will be angry at Valve.

If enough money is at stake Valve might even find themselves sued by the site operators. “Tortious Interference” is what it’s called here.

If consenting adults enter into agreements outside of Steam, what business is it of Valve’s to interfere?

As someone who’s not used these things, what’s wrong with a basic handshake to establish the comms channel?

“Hey, are you listening?”

“Yes, go ahead.”

…

Isn’t that all this really is?

Seems a weird thing for people to be uptight about.