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Do you actually own anything digital? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Do you actually own anything digital?::From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gog provides DRM free installers when buying games at their store

[–] TheGrandNagus 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And plenty of steam games are DRM-free too.

I really wish steam made it clear though. Should have to come with a tag stating DRM/no DRM. Shit, let us filter games by its DRM status.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't all games on Steam get the basic DRM treatment?

[–] TheGrandNagus 3 points 11 months ago

Nah, it's optional

However, because steam doesn't tell you which games are DRM, and companies have been known to arbitrarily add DRM in updates, I generally treat steam games as being DRM games