Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to developers

Re:Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to... by dataflow on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:50AM (#32435348)

> All contracts are a restraint of trade of some form.

I don't follow... how is this true? "I will give you X and you will give me Y" is a contract right? What is it restraining either party from doing?

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Re:Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to... by DocTomoe on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:50AM (#32436001)

If I buy all of object X, no object X can be sold in Montana.

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Re:Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to... by dmurray on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:57AM (#32435383)

Giving X to someone else who offers me more for it.

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Re:Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to... by dataflow on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:01AM (#32435405)

That seems... wrong? Say Google offers you 2 TB of storage space for 1 year for $100. You're saying that's preventing you from simultaneously paying Microsoft $100 for > 2 TB of storage storage? Or that that's preventing Google from giving someone else 2 TB of storage space for > $100? What exactly prevents both parties from doing this with multiple counterparties?

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Re:Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to... by dmurray on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:30AM (#32435546)

If you have lots of X, sure. But instead of something incredibly fungible like storage space, suppose I had instead agreed to sell you the Empire State building.

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Re:Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to... by dataflow on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:33AM (#32435571)

I thought the claim was "all contracts are a restraint", not "there exists a contract that is a restraint"?

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