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After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by inclementimmigrant to c/pcgaming

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Saw a article on a large number of gamers being over 55 and then I saw this which I believe needs to be addressed in our current laws.

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[–] SlothMama -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but you're wrong and I'm sorry this is how you're finding out. DRM is absolutely about limiting and controlling access to content you don't own, that's it's entire purpose.

[–] kernelle 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but you're wrong, DRM is about the management of legal access to digital content (literally Digital Rights Management). Essentially a way to check if you have paid for the content you're about to consume, and because protecting the copyrights to digital works is inherently almost impossible, it also tries to prevent unauthorised copies.

Blurays have DRM, they can only be used by a reader with a correct certification, which only gets that if they have implemented HDCP among other specs. I own my blurays and will happily pass them on to the next generation.

But sure, give it your own meaning so you can witchhunt lmao

[–] SlothMama 1 points 4 months ago

I feel like we both mean the same things here, and I'm using more extreme and evocative language about it, but we're literally on the same page. I know a lot, and I mean a lot about DRM, and it means both of what we say.

DRM is intended to limit who accesses the content, on what devices, and when. It does it through a number of mechanisms from accounts, to encryption and certs, to digital hashes and stored keys.

These companies that sell you access don't sell you a copy of the content though, they absolutely only sell access. You have no legal right to the content, no 'right of first sale' rights to resell, you really don't have rights to the content that are guaranteed, they can always, and I mean always legally revoke access to you, even though you paid, for any reason they want and you don't have legal recourse.