There are people in this thread equating consumer protections to "authoritarian governments". This is patently ridiculous. Consumer rights and protections (alon

There are people in this thread equating consumer protections to "authoritarian governments". This is patently ridiculous. Consumer rights and protections (along with environmental protections) are probably the single greatest thing our governments provide citizenry. This is also being championed by the EU the most. Frankly I want my government to mandate I can't be screwed by the handful of hundred billion dollar companies more than I already am. "Market forces" are completely irrelevant when the entire industry is a one giant racketeering exercise. Fortunately I can choose to only buy DRM free ebooks, and DRM free games, but this is < 1% of media available and certainly never the most popular titles. This needs to change. There needs to be laws in place to protect consumers from this shitty behaviour - with or without DRM. Steam for all it's faults have said since day 1 than there is a mechanism in Steam to unlock all of your games should Valve go bankrupt: I'm not sure if this is true now they sell mainly over peoples' games. Steam also never remove the ability for you to download and play a game you have bought - even when the publishers have delisted and removed it from Steam.