{"id":103897,"date":"2016-09-09T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103897"},"modified":"2016-09-09T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:09:24","slug":"pre-installed-bloatware-is-now-totally-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/103897-pre-installed-bloatware-is-now-totally-legal","title":{"rendered":"Pre-installed bloatware is now totally legal"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyGaming recently published\u00a0an article<\/strong> <\/a>about the detrimental effects pre-installed software has on your gaming PC.<\/p>\n

Now, a recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling has found that it is not unfair commercial practice to sell a PC with pre-installed software, reports The Register<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Deroo-Blanquart bought a Sony laptop in 2008, but refused to subscribe to the operating system’s end-user licence agreement, arguing that he wanted to be reimbursed for the cost of the pre-installed software.”<\/p>\n

“Sony refused to do so, but offered a refund if Deroo-Blanquart returned the computer.”<\/p>\n

“Deroo-Blanquart brought legal proceedings against Sony, looking for \u20ac450 for the pre-installed software, and \u20ac2,500 in damages.”<\/p>\n

The court found in favour of Sony, noting that manufacturers don’t have to note how much the pre-installed software on a PC is worth.<\/p>\n

The CJEU said that it is not necessarily an unfair commercial practice to bundle computers with pre-installed software, so long as “such an offer is not contrary to the requirements of professional diligence and does not distort the economic behaviour of consumers.”<\/p>\n

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Looks like we are stuck with all that garbage software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,21849,1896,21845,21847,71,2791],"class_list":["post-103897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-agreement","tag-court","tag-end-user","tag-licence","tag-sony","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103903,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103897\/revisions\/103903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}