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If people were showing you how to bypass Steam and download games for free do you really think Valve wouldn't use DCMA to have it removed ? Because I can't thi
by threeseed 5y ago
If people were showing you how to bypass Steam and download games for free do you really think Valve wouldn't use DCMA to have it removed ?
Because I can't think of any business who would tolerate this.
- snvzz 5y agoFalse equivalence. These videos aren't showing how to download games for free.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoEmulation, unlike software piracy, is not illegal.
- kevinh 5y agoI seriously doubt they would. Gabe Newell, Valve's owner, has talked about how piracy is a service problem. Steam is wildly successful even though most of the games on the service either have no DRM or Steam's easily cracked one. There's also a YT video from over a year ago with over 250k views with a title about pirating games, which I imagine would've gotten taken down if Valve cared since it references Steam specifically.
- Karsteski 5y agoI can easily pirate most games on Steam. I don't, because they provide a good service and I believe game creators should be paid for their work. I will never buy another Nintendo game or device because they are very anti-consumer in too many ways that are off-putting to me, and I don't like buying locked down hardware. So emulation on the Steam Deck it is :)