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In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers (buttondown.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] NutWrench 67 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Once again, "if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing."

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I always look on itch.io and GoG first!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Several Steam games are DRM-free and don't even need Steam to be installed to play them: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

For those games, you can just make a copy of the game directory.