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Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

You just rent a license on Steam. So it's a definition of DRM.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

ik, but when you lose your account you can copy the non drmed games to another pc or smth.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

The definition of digital rights management is licensing? That does not sound right to me.

A long time before steam the software sector moved to selling licenses only btw.

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