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Angko That would apply if they were based in Germany but German laws don’t apply to people who are not German citizens or opperating in Germany. That’s at least my understanding but I could be wrong.

BigMike72 you are wrong, if company A is operating in the Eu/EES zone they are subject to the laws of the EU/EES.

BigMike72 according to my legal counsel webnovel has breached article 102 of TFEU.

KingDerp Terms of service for the privilege are there for you to read. You pay for access to read earlier and its nowhere said you pay for a month of service. Its the same on Patron. It resets every 1st of the month and if you dont continue paying, you lose access to the chapters. If you continue paying, you dont automatically get more chapters but you still have the same until author upload new chapter.

Piokilek Since you are either unable or unwilling to actually look this up yourself.
Here is an extract from article 102 of TFEU.....

Exploitative abuse:
This type occurs whereby a dominant firm using dominant position to exploit consumers without losing them through conduct like price increase and production limitation. There is no legal definition of ‘exploitative abuse’ under Article 102 but it can be taken as ‘any conduct that directly causes harm to the customers of the dominant undertaking’. Without barriers to entry, the market is likely to be self-corrected by competition because monopoly profits will attract new competitors to enter the market. However, the Guidance does suggest that the Commission will intervene where the conduct is directly exploitative of consumers (for example, charging excessively high prices).

Excessive price:
Price set significantly above the competitive level. Article 102 explicitly bans unfair pricing which has been understood as to cover the excessive pricing. The charged price must be excessive and unfair to be abusive. The test used was stated in the United Brands case that whether the charged price has no reasonable relation to the economic value of the product supplied and exceeds what the dominant undertaking would have obtained in a normal and sufficiently competitive market

Agreement clause loophole they say you can't sue, they never said you can't get someone to sue on your behalf

KingDerp hey man ignore the dick riders. Tell us how it goes. :)

Privilege is a trap anyway.

KingDerp The prices are not unfair. I charge the same on patreon as I do on Webnovel. Original authors set fair prices. It's just translators that set them high.

I'm not making a comment on the actual circumstances in this thread, so just drop that part if you dislike what I'm writing.

Any organisation selling anything to the EU market is subject to said market if the sale was done locally (ie you made an in-app purchase in the local currency).

Several EU countries invalidates the individual's right to sign away some purchase rights. That means I (since I'm Sweden) can't legally sign away any of my stipulated rights as per written in Swedish law. Doesn't matter if my signature is all over the place.

Rosie32 And nothing will be done. China seems to be exempt from international trade laws. Not only do they routinely export fakes, many fatal food imports have arrived from China to the US (ex. Prepackaged hamburger patties filled with saw dust), yet for some reason no one os willing to do an

BigMike72 International trade law states that the stricter requirements of the importing/exporting nations apply to all trades. For some reason though, Chima constamtly ignores them and gets away with it.

Piokilek ToS have been declared invalid. They are not legally binding contracts.