| Antabus said: Yeah. Steam is DRM and a bad one. I don't want to support DRM. Why do you want to support DRM? Is there some reason for that? Why you should not be able to sell a digital download? |
I'll support it as long as the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. To me, having saved game backups, the ability to play anywhere without having to take my disks, not having to worry about finding disks when I get new hardware and the new cross platform ownership if I decide to buy a Mac, outweigh the disadvantage of second hand sale. That's not including all the extra community features.
Essentially, it's DRM which whilst in one hand takes away one ability, but gives a lot of benefits to the customer with the other. In other words, it's the only DRM I've seen that's actually doing something right.
On the second hand sale of DD products you have to remember that the laws were originally written for physical products that undergo degradation with use. With digital download the area is very grey. With a digital download there is not degradation, hence if you sell a DD product onto another party, they will essentially receive exactly the same product as one from brand new/full price.
For physical media, the equivalent would be if you purchased a DVD, made a perfect replica, then sold it on. It bascially equates to a form of piracy. These are really some pretty insane issues for law makers to sort out, because on one hand you have the right to sell, but on the other, they have to protect the content holders/distributors.
