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Bans on Steam

The nearly comprehensive guide about bans on the Steam platform. Hither we'll talk about all possible bans that you can get, and why y'all tin become them, while using Steam, as well as provide data on how to avoid getting banned. This guide is available in 🇷🇺 Russian

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Introduction

This guide will talk virtually all the possible bans that yous can get and how you can get them while using Steam. This guide will reference the Steam Back up manufactures throughout the text likewise.

Have annotation that this guide will only explain bans that tin exist received through violations of Steam's guidelines. Some of the business relationship restrictions that impact new Steam users are a part of your account condition — limited accounts, for example, are restricted right after the registration until y'all spend $five in the Steam Store.

ane. Account Bans

If a user has violated any terms of the Steam Subscriber Understanding, which the user has accepted during the free registration process on Steam, their account may be blocked or restricted. Such restrictions may be applied merely past Valve employees.

As pointed out earlier, Steam account bans may occur when there is a alienation of at least one term of the Steam Subscriber Agreement.
The near common reasons for why an business relationship may be banned are:

• buying, selling, trading and the transferring of a Steam business relationship to 3rd parties;
• attempting to gain unauthorized admission to accounts of other people;
• evasion of regional restrictions for your country store with the help of a proxy, VPN and other tools to hide the real location of a user;
• unauthorized usage of Steam for the goal of financial proceeds (online casinos, betting, lotteries, etc.);
• cases where Steam usage involves illegal activity (storing and distributing child pornography, selling drugs and weapons, advocacy and promotion of terrorism, etc.);
• fraudulent activeness and scamming via Steam Trading.

ane.1. This account may have been accessed by someone else

In the case that Steam Support suspects that an business relationship is not under use by its original owner (the user who has originally registered the account and accustomed the Steam Subscriber Understanding) as a result of reports from either the original owner or offendant or every bit a outcome from an ongoing investigation, Steam Back up will ship the post-obit alert in club to find the original account owner:

The account will have restricted functionality until its original owner volition provide proof of ownership to Steam Support.

The account owner is the user who has completed the free registration process and accepted all terms of the Steam Subscriber Agreement. If someone has obtained the business relationship past borrowing it from a friend, for example, the borrower volition not exist considered to be the account owner, even if they have spent their funds and played for any amount of hours.

one.2. This account has been locked by its owner

The "Steam Cocky Locking Tool" allows yous to lock your account and protect it from unauthorized actions if you suspect that the business relationship has been stolen or compromised. When certain Steam account changes are made, a notification will be sent to the e-mail address that is associated with your account. These include the following:

• Password changes
  
• Email changes
  
• Steam Guard code requests

The business relationship owner will receive an email, regardless of who has done i of the aforementioned actions. This bulletin will also include a link to lock the account. If no changes were fabricated to the account by its possessor, they should use this button in order to avoid any potential problems. After using it, the following account alert will be shown:

The user must ensure that they have written a recovery code prior to locking their account. This code will allow them to lift business relationship restrictions, when the account is safe and secure.

At this fourth dimension, information technology is just possible for a user to lock their business relationship past using a link that is included in the notification that volition but arrive in the specific cases mentioned above.
The user is unable to lock their business relationship directly through the Steam Client or by any other means.

1.3. This account is associated with the theft of other users' Steam accounts

In well-nigh cases, Steam Support does not automatically contact owners of banned accounts. Valve has a nil-tolerance policy of Steam Subscriber Agreement and Steam Online Behave violations; the back up staff volition immediately cake all accounts that are owned past a user who has performed one or more than of the following:

• Piracy or Hacking

  This includes using an unauthorized ("hacked") Steam client to access Steam, attempting to annals fake CD Keys or attempting to register a CD Primal which has been published on the internet.

• Business relationship theft or shared usage

  Users may non apply accounts that they do non ain.

• Account "Phishing" and Deliberately Deceptive Activity

  This includes contacting other users exterior of Steam or over the Friends network nether a misleading/impersonating screen name or eastward-mail address (i.e. "Steam Admin", "VAC Administrator", "You Won Gratuitous Game Souvenir") and requesting countersign or account information.

• Ownership, selling or trading accounts

  All purchased, sold and traded business relationship will exist banned. This includes all accounts that a user is the owner of at the fourth dimension of buy, regardless of the fact they were sold or traded, or non.

In the case of a violation, Steam Back up will ship the following alert to the business relationship:

Please read the Steam Subscriber Agreement and the Steam Online Conduct should you have questions regarding a disabled Steam account.
Quote from the Steam Subscriber Agreement:

"You may not reveal, share or otherwise permit others to use your password or Business relationship except as otherwise specifically authorized by Valve. You are responsible for the confidentiality of your login and countersign and for the security of your figurer system. Valve is not responsible for the use of your password and Account or for all of the communication and activity on Steam that results from utilise of your login proper noun and password past y'all, or by any person to whom you may have intentionally or by negligence disclosed your login and/or password in violation of this confidentiality provisionю <…> Yous may therefore not sell or charge others for the right to utilize your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account, nor may you lot sell, accuse others for the right to employ, or transfer any Subscriptions other than if and as expressly permitted past this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Utilise) or every bit otherwise specifically permitted by Valve."

i.four. This account appears to have been used for fraudulent action

A scam occurs when one user fraudulently makes another user willingly perform a trade, buy something on the customs market, receive a gift, or etc. Support staff will immediately cake all accounts that were involved in:

• Receiving gifts from scammers

  Never accept gifts from strangers. Any account that have activated gifts from scammers can be banned.

• Fraudulent transactions

  Any fraudulent action that involves cyberbanking cards, charge-backs and refunds through PayPal, regardless of when the performance occurred.

• Merchandise scams

  Faking items, using middlemen (imitating/spoofing one), trade checks, etc.

• Community Marketplace scams

  This can happen when a user offers to send y'all some coin to your Steam Wallet by purchasing one of your cheap items for a high toll on the Community Market. The majority of these offers involve coin that were obtained by scamming other users.

The following alert will be sent if an aforementioned indicate is violated:

In rare cases, scammers volition hijack an account and use it to commit scams, fraud, or other hijackings. If this happens, Steam Support will lock the business relationship until the rightful owner contacts them.

Steam Support relies on several data points to arrive at a decision to ban or lock an account.
Users intent on committing malicious activity—well-nigh often done to other users—are constantly trying to gain this data to employ in future scams, fraud and hijackings.

ane.5. This account has violated the Steam Terms of Service Agreement

One of the about serious bans on Steam is the ban for a violation of the Steam Subscriber Understanding. Every unmarried user must have its terms during their business relationship registration. Any violation of its terms will lead either to a temporary or permanent ban. The well-nigh severe violations are punished with the offending business relationship being completely disabled.

Temporary ban:

Permanent ban:

2. Steam Community Bans

The Steam Community is a union of all Steam users.

You lot can detect new people with the assistance of the Steam Community, whom you lot can befriend, chat with in groups, share screenshots, read news and lookout man broadcasts. Users who violate the Community Rules and Guidelines will receive bans according to their actions.

Bans in community hubs are local bans that are constructive only in that particular community hub. Such bans are given out for violating discussion rules in said hub, every bit well equally for inappropriate user-generated content (screenshots, guides, reviews, etc.).

2.i. Warnings in Steam Discussions

A Warning is a message from a user with certain level of authorization (a Steam Back up member, a Steam Customs Moderator, a game developer, or a forum moderator), where an offending user is notified of their inappropriate behavior on the Steam Community Discussions.

Dissimilar a ban, a alert is merely a reminder there are rules and guidelines in the Steam Community a user needs to abide by. Further violations may pb to a ban.

A mail that the user has been warned for may exist removed.

2.2. Bans in Steam Discussions

Violation of the Steam Discussions Rules and Guidelines will result in a ban from Steam Discussions. This ban, temporary or permanent, makes all Steam forums unavailable to the banned user. They can however participate in a community hub's discussions, still.

If a user is banned, they volition receive a corresponding notification. A new link, "Community Moderation Messages", volition too announced beneath "Post History". This is the only identify where a banned user can hash out a moderator's actions and entreatment to shorten the duration of their ban, or to lift it all together.

This is what they will encounter past going to the "Community Moderation Messages" page:

Ban notification from a Steam Community Moderator — 4 Aug 5:45pm

Date and time the ban was issued.

You lot have been banned from Steam Discussions

Reason of the notification by a community moderator.

Link to a thread where rules were broken.

Originally posted by User:

R.I.P.

An exact quote of the offending bulletin.

Ban Reason:

pointless/spam mail

A short description of why a user was banned. It should describe exactly what inappropriate actions were done by the user.

Link to the Discussions Rules and Guidelines, and so the user tin examine rules in society to not become banned next time.

This ban will expire on 7 Aug @ v:45pm. Until then, y'all will not be able to post in Steam Discussions.

If it is a temporary ban, a date and fourth dimension of its expiration will exist provided. If the ban is permanent, a user with such ban will never exist able to postal service in the discussions from their banned account.

2.3. Steam Customs Ban

The Steam Community Ban is a ban which restricts access to the Steam Community features for breaking the Rules and Guidelines or as a result of a lock placed on your account.

A Steam Community Ban is by and large issued past a Community Moderator or a Steam Support Staff Member. This ban may be associated with, but non limited to the following actions:

• The violation of whatever paragraph of the Steam Subscriber Understanding and Steam Online Bear;
  
• The use of graphic or otherwise inappropriate avatars, screenshots, artwork etc.;
  
• Spamming the community;
  
• Inappropriate language;
  
• Harassing other users;
  
• Continuing to post moderated content;
  
• Posting content related to racism or other forms of bigotry.

Here is an example of a ban issued past Steam Support for spamming in the community.

Steam Support sends an to the offending user:

As well every bit the account alarm, the user will as well receive a notification in their "Customs Moderation Messages" that details what content was against the rules and what was removed.

A standard customs ban ordinarily includes the following restrictions:

The user's profile is hidden without the "This contour is private" characterization;

The user is unable to participate in the Steam Discussions;

The user cannot go out comments in the activity feed of their ain profile or in that of other users' profiles:

The user will not be able to ship group and friend requests, nor volition they exist able to accept them from other users.

The user is unable to edit their profile, i.due east cannot modify profile name, state, custom URL, avatar, summary, contour background, showcases, etc.

The user is unable to see the number of mutual groups and friends with some other user.

The user is unable to add other users to the ignored users list.

The user is unable to trade or apply the Community Marketplace.

two.4. Ban for Harassment

If you are annoying, stalking or harassing users of the Seam Community, yous may receive a temporary or a permanent ban for such activity.

Example of a temporary ban for harassment:

2.v. User Generated Content (UGC) Bans

User Generated Content (UGC) includes comments, guides, reviews, screenshots, artworks, videos, tags, Workshop items, etc.

In the case that a UGC violates Steam Rules and Guidelines, it can be banned by a Steam Community Moderator or Steam Support Staff.

Hither are a few examples of User Generated Content bans for clarity:

2.5.1. Review Ban

Thanks to Steam Reviews, a potential heir-apparent can at present make a ameliorate decision when purchasing a product on Steam by getting to know another user'due south experience; having the ability to notice the positive and negative features of a game. In some cases, a review can be offensive or otherwise inappropriate. Such review volition be banned and the following message will announced:

2.v.2. Bans of Screenshots, Artworks, Guides, etc.

User-generated content shouldn't violate Guidelines and Rules of Steam. Everyday screenshots, guides and artworks of completely dissimilar nature are uploaded to Steam. If they contain materials that are against the rules, they may be hidden every bit incompatible in the customs hub they were uploaded to, or banned.

An example of a banned guide message (similar messages are sent for other types of content equally well).
A bulletin with the following content is sent to an associated e-mail address:

2.5.3. Content Uploading Restriction for an Active Discussions Ban

If a user received a ban in a community hub give-and-take area, along with that they are too restricted from uploading UGC to the said hub.

This brake has the same length as the forum ban.

If the ban is lifted prematurely, the restriction will exist removed as well.

2.5.iv. Ban for Upvoting User-Generated Content

Malicious Steam users often abuse the upvoting mechanism of UGC in gild to promote illegal scam links that are targeting for harvesting Steam users' account details or stealing their inventory items. In response to that, Valve implemented the following brake: if y'all upvoted content that was banned, you will exist banned from posting content (screenshots, guides, artworks, etc.) for ane month since the content ban appointment.

The following message volition exist sent to an email accost associated with the offending Steam business relationship:

2.6. Profile Content Removal

The following items are regarded as profile content:

• User profile name;
  
• Avatar;
  
• Profile description;
  
• Custom contour (vanity) URL;
  
• Showcases.

If profile content violates the rules, a Steam Community Moderator or a Steam Support Member may remove such content.

When offending content is removed, a customs message is sent to the user, whose profile content was removed.

Annotation that only avatar removed will identify a restriction that prevents the user from uploading a new avatar for one calendar week. In case of further violations, the length of the restriction volition increase.

When all other types of profile content are removed, the user can change/edit them at any time, withal farther repeated violations will lead to an account ban or a Steam Community ban (see more than in section 2.3. of the guide).

2.7. Group Bans

Steam Groups are made to connect users who share the aforementioned interests. Each group has its own set up of rules, violating them will result in a ban. A user who is breaking the rules may be subject field to being banned from the group discussions or the group's own chatroom. They tin can also be kicked from the group.

2.7.one. Bans in the Grouping Discussions

For a violation of the group's rules, the violator will be banned. A group ban, temporary or permanent, makes all of that grouping'south forums unavailable to the banned user.

If a user is banned, they volition not receive a notification in their profile. While browsing the group again, however, they volition see the following red box above the thread list of any subforum:

• If banned permanently:

• If banned temporarily:

The banned user will be allowed to read any thread, however they will not be able to post messages. They will see this bulletin in identify of the reply box:

2.vii.ii. Bans in Group Chats

Even though violating group members may be banned from the grouping discussions, they are notwithstanding able to join and participate in the group chatroom. Grouping discussion bans and chatroom bans are separated. This ways that the group administrators and moderators will likewise have to ban the offender from the group the group chatroom to forbid any more than violations.

The offender in this case volition see a message, which says that "they were banned from the chat by %moderator_name%". They will also encounter a popup in their Steam tray with the same message (every bit you lot tin see on the right side).

Depending on the ban elapsing, the offender will not be able to join the group chat. Whenever they attempt to, they will exist greeted with the post-obit notification:

2.2. Bans in Community Hubs

Bans in Community Hubs are local bans that bear on only one community hub. They are issued for violating the rules of a particular customs hub, which includes, but non limited to, discussions and inappropriate user-generated content (screenshots, guides, artworks, reviews, etc.).

two.ii.1. Bans in Games' Discussions

Violation of the global forum Rules and Guidelines, as well as the local ones, is punishable with a ban. Both temporary and permanent bans in a community hub will result in a banned user not being able to participate in any of the discussions of the said community hub. This ban, withal, affects only the community hub where a violation has been committed — the user is still gratuitous to post in discussions of other community hubs and the official Steam forums.

If a user is banned, they will receive the post-obit notification.

This is what the user volition see by going to the "Community Moderation Messages" page:

See 2.four. Bans in Steam Discussions for more than information about this type of a ban.

3. Trading Bans

A Trade ban is a restriction which prevents using and trading in the Steam Marketplace. This ban can only be applied past a Valve employee. Depending on the gravity of the alienation, trading may exist restricted temporarily or permanently.

3.1. Trade Ban

If a user violates or ignores the established rules during their trading activity, they volition receive a temporary or permanent ban in the Steam Trading System.

Most often, a cherry find in a user's profile will appear for soliciting other users to merchandise for something that is not allowed:

• Trades involving money

  The Steam trading interface does not support the transfer of money in whatsoever form. This includes Wallet credits, PayPal, gift cards or any other type of currency.

• Trades involving CD Keys

  Trading for CD Keys is not supported in the Steam Trading interface. CD Keys that are offered are often for a dissimilar game, fake, used or region restricted.

• Trading items/gifts for nothing in return

  You should complete any trades in a single trade. The trading interface supports an unlimited corporeality of items to be included with each trade, usually foregoing the need for multiple trades. If you choose to trade an item without receiving anything in render, you lot will receive a confirmation dialog prior to completing the trade which lets you know the particular yous are sending is considered a gift.

• Trades offering Steam Wallet credit

  Steam Wallet credit cannot exist traded, moved, gifted or automatically added to accounts past other users. Never accept trades that offer Steam Wallet funds. The merely way to add funds to someone else'south account, is to buy and souvenir them a Digital Souvenir Card.

• Borrowing Steam items

  If yous give a user an item, in that location is goose egg to stop them from keeping it. In most cases, if a user wishes to borrow an item, they volition not render information technology. Practise non lend items to other users.

For violation of any points above, Steam Support will effect the following alert to the offender:

Stick to the established rules and use common sense to avoid getting scammed and/or banned.

3.two. Trade Probation

Upon receiving a merchandise ban, the offending account volition be placed into probation as well. Probationary status allows other users to see if a user has committed scams in the past so they can make improve decisions about whether or non they want to trade with the user.

iv. Bans in The Steam Store

Steam Store Bans are mostly related to cases when a payment is charged-back or disputed when a menu possessor sees unidentified payments in their bank account or if these purchases were made without the owner's consent.

4.1. Revoked Key Notification

An account alert tin be triggered by a removed (revoked) CD key. This can happen, for example, when the CD Key is intended for a limited time activation, like a Beta, or if the publisher determines that the CD Central itself had been obtained past fraudulent ways.

The official Steam Support article states that "Your account will not be restricted; still, the CD Central you received will be removed". And then, users do non demand to worry when they meet this notification:

4.2. Disputed Payments in The Steam Store

When a cardholder or financial establishment disputes a purchase made through Steam, this results in a payment reversal and is considered a chargeback.

Chargebacks typically occur when someone identifies unknown charges on their depository financial institution account or finds purchases that were made without their consent.

In order to protect users from additional unknown charges, accounts associated with chargebacks are restricted while disputes are reviewed.

In guild to remove the restrictions, the user must contact the financial establishment associated with the disputed payments in order to shut them. Depending on the institution associated with the payments, it may take several weeks to close the dispute. Every bit a result of that, it may likewise accept several weeks later closing a dispute for the content and business relationship features to be restored.

With any chargeback, funds are held from Steam or returned to the cardholder. Since the funds are removed, the product is temporarily locked.

If a dispute is closed and the funds are returned to Steam, the content associated with the dispute will be restored.

5. Bans in Games

Game-specific bans that are shown in a user's profile are issued for cheating and using programs in order to gain an advantage over other players. This includes Valve's own Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) bans and game bans (banned by game developer).

5.1. Valve Anti-Crook (VAC) Ban

Valve has developed a system, that automatically detects and permanently restricts game admission to anyone who utilizes cheats or modifies programme code on servers that are protected by VAC.

Valve Anti-Cheat is running on all official game servers by Valve and on the majority of user-created servers. VAC tin be spotted by its shield icon in the server browser:

VAC automatically detects cheats (modifiers) and programs that are replacing files and interfering with the game process, and otherwise may provide an advantage over other players.

The VAC module is loaded into the client memory and is watching for any 3rd political party processes that are interfering with the game executable. This means that any program that is attaching or otherwise tampering with the game procedure, can and will exist recognized as a cheat.

In one case an outside interference is detected, the VAC module sends the following information to Valve servers: details well-nigh the intrusion type, business relationship data, etc. The process that is injecting into the game executable will be checked against the database, and if there is a similar procedure that is detected every bit a crook, a ban will exist issued. Once the account has been flagged, a ban will be placed in a couple of days, or in a few weeks. The user will non exist able to connect to VAC-secured servers and a red notice will announced in the offender'due south profile. The filibuster is there in society to preclude cheaters from knowing when and why they were banned, slowing down cheaters from creating work-arounds in the futurity.

A user, who has "earned" multiple VAC bans in unlike games, will have a corresponding characterization in their profile.

five.1.1. VAC and STS Bans

The Steam Translation Southwarderver is a special Valve website where volunteers are allowed to contribute to the translation process of Steam and Valve games (Dota 2, CS:GO, Team Fortress ii and others). According to the site'south oft asked questions section, users with express accounts and/or VAC bans, are unable to participate in the Steam translation initiative as they are not allowed to submit an application. Those who are already registered translators that were caught cheating volition be revoked the correct to continue participating in the initiative also. Such users will be greeted with the post-obit message:

v.2. Banned by Game Programmer

In order to ensure the all-time possible online multiplayer feel on non-Valve games, Valve allows developers to implement their own systems that observe and permanently ban any disruptive players, such every bit those using cheats.

The effects of the game ban are determined by the developer and must be consistent with a VAC ban, such every bit non being able to play online with other players and/or beingness able to trade items for that game.

Just permanent game bans are displayed on the user'due south profile. Temporary game bans, or suspensions, are not displayed.

6. DMCA Takedown Notice

The Digital Millennium Copyright Deed (DMCA) is a United states of america copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes product and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known equally digital rights management or DRM) that command access to copyrighted works. It besides criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or non in that location is actual infringement of copyright itself. In addition, the DMCA heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet.

Valve respects the intellectual property rights of others, and is expected that anybody using net sites and services do the same. Anyone who believes that their work has been reproduced on any net sites or services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement may notify Valve'due south copyright amanuensis using the form below. Be enlightened that under Section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, any person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material or activeness is infringing and may exist liable for amercement.

For example, in one case a user has establish out that their content was completely copied past another user, they can file an appropriate claim. Later that, the offending content volition receive a notification (a guide is used in this instance):

The merits is then processed by Valve. If it turns out the content in question does indeed borrow someone else's copyright, it volition be removed from the Customs.

vii. Steamworks Bans

Steamworks is a free suite of tools available to any programmer to use in their game or software on Steam.

Here is a minor sampling of the available features:

• Matchmaking
  
• Steam Inventory Service
  
• Anti-cheat technology
  
• In-game economic system with microtransactions
  
• Management of user-generated content
  
• Per-User cloud storage

Yet, for violations related to the contract between Valve and the developer, as well as the programmer breaching the Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA), advisable actions may be taken past Valve in guild to punish the offending political party by restricting access to certain Steamworks features or even terminating the contract.

7.1. Trading Cards Eligibility

Uploading inappropriate content may lead to your trading cards eligibility revoked.
Update: Now all developers are not eligible for trading cards since the 16th of May, 2017 until Valve can confirm the game every bit legitimate.

seven.2. Revoking Game Bans API

Developers who abuse their Game Bans feature will accept it revoked:

Originally posted by "Banned by Game Developer (Game Ban)" Steam Support Article:

Will Valve review developer requests for banning in any way?

Developers must be approved to use this arrangement, and Valve reserves the correct to revoke admission to the system if the developer abuses it.

vii.3. Restricting Keys Distribution

Steam key requests are manually reviewed and the history of your past requests and sales is looked into. This means that if you, for instance, take 100 sales on Steam and are requesting 500k keys, your primal request will most likely exist denied and you volition receive the post-obit message:

Your fundamental request may have been denied because the request was for a package that contains a release land override for the included appIDs, which would brand the content immediately playable upon activation. Unless a asking for testing/promo/printing override keys is a small batch and properly tagged for use, information technology may be denied.

If the Key request is intended for commercial purposes, be certain to use a package that does non override the release land of your app.

For more information on keys, delight see our documentation here: https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/keys

7.iv. Contract Termination Due to the NDA Breakage

All onboarding Steam partners must hold to a Not-Disclosure Agreement (NDA); if the NDA has been breached in any class, Valve has the right to terminate the contract and partnership. An example of that can exist leaking Steam Sales dates (which are confidential).

7.5. Contract Termination Due to Review Manipulation, Trading Cards Farming and Toxic Behavior

Developers are forbidden to manipulate reviews by any ways. This includes soliciting reviews by granting players free keys in exchange for a review, posting fake reviews by yourself or using grey-area bot review services.

Developers are non allowed to grant licenses of their games to accounts that are involved in a so-chosen "trading cards farming", a process where a developer generates thousands of trading cards of practically zero value, and then makes community market transactions in order to have a cut from these "sales".

Removing negative reviews, censoring users on the forums and showing negative behavior towards your customers is non immune.

Valve will stop the contract should one of aforementioned violations occur.

vii.6. Contract Termination Due to Copyright Infringement

When uploading content to Steam, you country that you are either an owner of the content you upload, or you accept permission from the legal owner to do so. If it is discovered that you lot accept illegally uploaded someone else'due south intellectual property without their permission, Valve will cease your contract.

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