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What did Steam do?
They‘re a de facto monopoly, and they pretty much started the whole drm protected license tied to account thing for video games. They also charge quite some fees for devs.
But they haven’t been in the news for anything specific lately, besides maybe the price of the stream machine, which definitely isn’t their fault.
From what I remember, individual publishers started it, but they used a combo of cd-based drm (which would install rootkits on your pc and sometimes kill your cd drive) and online activation of your key to your account. Steam just made a much less invasive system that lets you access your purchases easily instead of making it risky and hard.
But doesn’t gog especially show, that you can do completely without drm and not have any issues?
That's always been the case but the anti-home-copying paranoia has had media executives wringing their hands since the tape recorder at least.
Yes and it all gets beaten sooner or later regardless