Valve and everyone has been stealing pc games for 23+ years since 1997. In case you weren't aware, in the 90's any hacker worth his salt, if you suggested taking up any client-server app you were looked at as a pariah, it's the ultimate security risk.
Trusted computing is literally them stealing ownership of your PC, the TPM and "security chips" are all about ending you controlling your pc, you can't have any privacy when microsoft can force update your bios with windows update. That's what the big plan was since the mid 90's.
Go have a read, if you still think personal computer ownership isn't under attack you're clueless:
You don't grasp that two or more computers in a network become and hehave as single device. So you never want a client-server exe, that's the same thing as getting your computer hacked and owned, they can spy on you and do anything because you can't audit the source. That's why anyone with a clue wants to avoid windows 10+ with TPM chips because they can remote update your system and disable cracked or other software they don't approve of, when there is plenty of legit reasons for cracking old software.
It's also why level editors disappeared in AAA Games, basic multiplayer was a feature that came in every AAA Game in the 90's until Richard garriot had the bright idea of stealing the networking code, coding it in a weird way and selling it back to the public minus ownership.
You don't seem to grasp after the 2008 bailouts and the war in IRAQ, you live in a lawless oligarchy who's laws have been bribed into being for 200 years.
Copyright law was originally invented to preserve human culture, in the modern era, it's just been endlessly extended. The average citizen is politically illiterate and ignorant that he doensn't live in a democracy but a lawless oligarchy.
Game was won long time ago, the public ate client-server executables as soon as modems were fast enough in 1997 with the likes of ultima online, MMO's/steam/drm is all the same thing, us losing control of our PC's becuase the average gamer and PC user is stupid even among professionals.
The industry always wanted to kill infinitely copyable local application binaries and they found their way in via PC gaming in 97 with ultima online, lineage and everquest. That told the entire tech industry the average person would literally pay for a broken application and pay for the priveledge of robbing his or herself. The average member of the PC using public is oblivious.
The time to get nervous was the advent of MMO's, which were just RPG's with stolen networking code, which gave valve the inspiration for steam, which was a direct attack on local executables. So valve, Ea, etc, have been hacking our PC's since the mid 90's and early 2000's.
To complain about pluton now, means you're 20 years too late.
Go have a read of this paper by university researchers, this has been the plan of the WIP (world intellectual property organization) since the mid 90's. The attack on and the ending of general computing was planned from the beginning.
PC game companies accelerated it with gambling by rebranding their PC rpg's with stolen networking multiplayer mmo's to disposess the masses.
Most hackernews commenters today are oblivious, I see positive comments about steam mmo's/f2p games when they are just regular pc games with missing files and game code. Our species is really dumb.
Valve and everyone has been stealing pc games for 23+ years since 1997. In case you weren't aware, in the 90's any hacker worth his salt, if you suggested taking up any client-server app you were looked at as a pariah, it's the ultimate security risk.
Trusted computing is literally them stealing ownership of your PC, the TPM and "security chips" are all about ending you controlling your pc, you can't have any privacy when microsoft can force update your bios with windows update. That's what the big plan was since the mid 90's.
Go have a read, if you still think personal computer ownership isn't under attack you're clueless:
https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/cs/15349/dl/DRM-TC.pdf
You don't grasp that two or more computers in a network become and hehave as single device. So you never want a client-server exe, that's the same thing as getting your computer hacked and owned, they can spy on you and do anything because you can't audit the source. That's why anyone with a clue wants to avoid windows 10+ with TPM chips because they can remote update your system and disable cracked or other software they don't approve of, when there is plenty of legit reasons for cracking old software.
It's also why level editors disappeared in AAA Games, basic multiplayer was a feature that came in every AAA Game in the 90's until Richard garriot had the bright idea of stealing the networking code, coding it in a weird way and selling it back to the public minus ownership.
You don't seem to grasp after the 2008 bailouts and the war in IRAQ, you live in a lawless oligarchy who's laws have been bribed into being for 200 years.
Copyright law was originally invented to preserve human culture, in the modern era, it's just been endlessly extended. The average citizen is politically illiterate and ignorant that he doensn't live in a democracy but a lawless oligarchy.