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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 10 months ago by misk@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

maybe they didnt add it cause
"The DRM is noteable for only protecting against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying game files between friends), and is primarily used by game developers to ensure proper Steam/Steamworks API functionality within their games for legitimate users."
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[–] LunaChocken@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Extremely casual piracy? I suppose fair point.

But now what does each step in the scale mean then. For example what is extreme professional piracy or something.

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 point 10 months ago*

maybe like copying game files and putting them on sites for anyone(like lots and lots of people) to download?
I donno

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