When you buy a Humble Bundle, you're paying for a license to be used by one person for each game. Humble is awesome, and set up this cool thing where you get to use your license on whatever platform you wish that's available. You can get a Steam license, a Desura license, a DRM-free license, or even Origin license, but its intended to be ONE LICENSE for ONE PERSON. When you pay for one bundle and then let multiple people access the same games, it's piracy.

I see Desura keydrops here all the time, and I know they're duplicate licenses from Humbles. Now we get Origin keydrops everywhere. Witcher/Witcher 2 GOG backup codes on SteamTrades. Don't Starve Chrome keys. It's piracy. You're sharing a one-person license.

Humble is awesome, GOG/CD Projekt is awesome. Let's stop abusing their awesomeness. Encourage people to buy themselves instead of hunting for keydrops. And for the love of GabeN quit trying to profit off of them through trade.

EDIT: HEY, DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT WITH YOUR KEYS. You're not going to get in trouble, you're not going to get arrested. When you share your licenses, it just makes most people who understand software licensing think you're an asshole. We're not going to stop you, we're not going to suspend you. The two suspensions below were because it's pretty damn disrespectful and stupid to do it in this thread. Have a good day, and thanks for the drama.

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I will keep sharing my keys.

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+1

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+1

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Why haven't we banned humble bundle keys for gifting until the humble bundle sale is over? You know, how you used to run things around here?

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Holy crap. Its a new day and the drama continues?

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I wonder if it will hit 1k comments before being a day old.

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Time to spam!

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Pfff, you're just mad that your F5 threads don't get this much love!!

I kid, I kid. <3

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Sounds not so good, but yeah.. if you want to share something buy as gift and sent:)

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And now GalaGiveaways allows people to give away Origin codes!

So much fail over there :D

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I don't understand why there's so much hostility in this thread. As you all know, support members are users of the site before anything, and they're free to discuss anything they want as the rules permit. If changes about rules or regulations occur, they are clearly indicated in the thread name and description, which, as you can see, is not the case here.

The HIB ToS clearly indicates that the keys are for your personal use only. You are indeed committing piracy if you try to trade or sell them for something of value, or if you give licenses for the same game to different people. That being said, SteamGifts does not care about what you do with your keys, as you are breaking their policy, not ours (at the moment).

If you want to address an issue regarding a support member's actions, you need to open a support ticket about it so we can investigate the matter and direct you as necessary if needed.

Once again, the community has shown its incapability to do proper discussions, thanks. I'm closing this thread due to the enormous amount of calling out to bobo, while all he had done was to share information about how the Humble Bundle works, and what they expect from their buyers.

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Closed 11 years ago by bobofatt.