A New Law Just Forced Valve To Change Steam.
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A new law aims to force companies to make what they're selling clear. For Valve, this is a PR headache. For GOG, it's a free marketing win.► Enjoy games, wit...

TL:DW Steam has now changed its language from buy game to A purchase of a digital product grants a licence to the product on steam. This may also be non compliant with the new regulation as it still uses the word purchase. Also GOG used this opportunity to let you know their games come with an installer that they cannot take away from you.

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But it’s still digital when pirated…

True, but I won’t lose the ability to play a game or movie when thepiratebay.org is acquired by Google or Apple or Microsoft solely to shutter it and their DRM servers go down.

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so the issue is not digital, but DRM

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