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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Day 1 of suddenly having the urge to keep an offline and DRM free copy of all my steam games.

[–] XenoStare 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did everyone conveniently forget that Steam DRM is the reason why Steam came to prominence, and why it was ever used by any devs in the first place. Yes it's easily cracked and barely an anti-piracy measure, even admitted by Valve, but it is still DRM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@XenoStare @headmetwall that’s right. Steam is a business. They are not really for open source. Open source, is still a business model. It’s not public domain or libre software. Then can always make their stuff closed source at anytime. Just need to gather free work from the community and to elevate its private business. Still, there are articles detailing Valve as anti-consumer. It’s a search bar away.

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