Most Steam games can be "backed up" and played offline. It is the publisher's discretion whether DRM is used, including Steam's DRM. Also, fundamentally the i

Most Steam games can be "backed up" and played offline. It is the publisher's discretion whether DRM is used, including Steam's DRM. Also, fundamentally the issue of copyright is a government enforced artificial monopoly. It's ultimately up to to the governments whether you can "own" any digital media in the future. Hypothetically, the governments could come to take your physical media, and the only thing you can do to defend your rights is with arms, hence the US's fixation on their Second Amendment.