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Do you actually own anything digital? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 1 points 10 months ago

TBH, the default steam DRM is trivial to remove yourself with steam emulators and stuff, and many indie games dont even use it. The real problem is 3rd party DRM like Denuvo, which Valve probably can't remove even if they wanted to.