Comment on Do you actually own anything digital?

• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gog provides DRM free installers when buying games at their store

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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• menemen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, you can buy it legally and break the drm illegally. That is what someone I know very well does with my ebooks.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Removing DRM from content you bought is actually legal

    What’s illegal is doing so for the purposes of sharing whatever was DRM’d in the first place

    Not that it stops me

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It depends on the jurisdiction. Removal is illegal in some countries

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• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fyi, steam doesn’t add additional DRM to games. So long as the maker hasn’t added anything significant, you can often just copy the game folder out, and run it independently. There’s nothing (in theory) to stop you backing it up yourself.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Steam itself is drm though. If you have a pc that can’t connect to the internet or is no longer compatible with steam (like an XP pc for example), even if you have the game files, you can’t play then without first installing and updating steam.

    I have an XP pc for period-era gaming and I can’t touch anything steam related for it so instead I have to either look for them on the internet archive or hope there is still a torrent for such an old game. Or failing both, actually find a physical copy. This still means I can’t really play Valve’s XP games though because of their requirement of Steam no matter how you bought the game.

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    • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sort of, but only if you’re launching through Steam. You can launch DRM-free Steam games through the executable file without launching Steam if you already have the files downloaded.

      Games on Steam don’t require Steamworks or any other DRM, if your game won’t launch without Steam running that’s a choice by the game developer and not a restriction imposed for Steam.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s few games that work like that. Mant use the steam basic drm, making the game not launching if a valid steam session is nor running.

    That’s why I have the generic steam crack. Inncase they pull the plug some day.

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