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Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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What a bullshit patent. Twitch and other streaming services have been doing this for longer than this patent have existed most likely.
Yeah, the fact such a nonspecific patent was granted in the first place shows pretty clearly there's something wrong with the system!