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You never owned any software, even before valve. All you ever purchased was a license key that could be revoked at any time.
That isn't a problem made by valve, it existed far before the whole company was even founded. The underlying issue is the way digital mediums are licensed and the corresponding copyright laws.
That's not really true. I still have physical media that I've purchased as a teenager. That's not a license key that I own that's physical media. It was independent of any licensing servers or anything like that. Digital media licensing didn't really start taking effect until about 2010ish en masse. Prior to that most streaming services like Netflix weren't really streaming services as internet infrastructure didn't quite exist to that degree yet.