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		imtringued on Oct 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DR... DRM is optional on steam. The publisher has to decide to use it. The DRM is also trivially breakable.

cyphar on Oct 8, 2016 [–]

Do you have any stats on how many publishers use the DRM? I get the feeling that the numbers are quite high for AAA games. Also, the DRM being "trivially breakable" doesn't actually help anyone -- if you buy a game then break the DRM you're implicitly signalling that DRM is good to publishers.

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