• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    It informs customers, that licensing a game on Steam is not like buying a pair of pants on pantsshop24.org. That’s what it’s meant to do.

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      3 hours ago

      I thought it would only apply to certain games. I feel like it’s just normalizing it rather than really being educational. Now companies can go fullboar with games only being a license and just point to the disclaimer as an excuse.

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        1 hour ago

        You only buy a license to watch/listen media private in most cases. Even if yo buy a DRM free copy of a film/track/game, you only have a license to consume it private. If you want to show (or share) with public, you need another (way more expensive) license to do that legally.

        The only difference is, when you only stream the media or there is DRM on the files, it is not possible to archive it easily and the danger of lost media is far greater.

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          57 minutes ago

          Dude, you just cannonballed into the Achualy pool. You know that’s not what we’re all talking about.