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ndriscolllast Thursday at 3:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

They've made it clear that you don't own your cloud library, so the only reasonable answer is to never pay for something with DRM you cannot remove (including things that require an online account for functionality you consider important), and treat services like Steam as a temporary convenience to download known good files that you then fix to remove any DRM. If you only treat these services as a download tool, their ban loses all teeth.


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morgan814last Thursday at 6:00 PM

> never pay for something with DRM you cannot remove

I take this to mean to sail the seas but I have apprehension over running modified binaries from random people. Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this worry?

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dylan604last Thursday at 3:49 PM

I'm not an avid gamer, so maybe this is a naive question, but how do you know these things before you buy the game?

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