by diafero » Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:32 am
I completely agree with Dustin here - DRM is evil per se. Sure, a company *can* work in a way that DRM does not affect you, usually, if it's managed well and in a customer-friendly manner. Chacal's experience (and I recently heard the same story from a friend of mine) proves that Valve does not do that. In addition, Valve or Steam might be bought by someone then misusing the technology. Actually, it's totally misleading to call this "buying" a game if yo get a DRM-protected copy - this has nothing to do with the usual buying where you then have something under you control, independent from who sold it. It's more lending: You pay Valve so that they lend you the game as long as their servers run and as long as they don't decide that for some reason, you are no longer worth playing the game. Calling this "buying" is pure hypocrisy.
It's much like why many of the laws currently made in many countries are bad - not (only) because the current or the next government will mis-use them, but because the tools that a future not-so-benevolent dictator needs are created now.
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