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Theoretically they're trying to prevent people re-selling and trading, because it makes companies less willing to participate. Many of the complaints I'm aware of were people who ended up admitting they were doing this frequently and buying multiple copies for that purpose (though that doesn't mean there aren't false positives).
The "best" way to give away extra keys is to redeem the actual steam key yourself, then share that key, obfuscated in some way so a human can manage it a bot cannot. As far as we know they can't track that.