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Rule of owning (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Afaik, Steam only sells licences.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 68 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Steam sells DRM-free games too, you can download them and then uninstall Steam and they will work. In this case though, on top of purchasing the game, you are buying a license to download updates for it through Steam. It's a developer decision.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DRM is orthagonal to ownership

[–] warm@kbin.earth 20 points 1 month ago

I do not disagree?

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