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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by ChrisSD on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:40PM (#21798838)
> Even now, the pirating of PC games is being made more common by the introduction of the Epic Store, which, regardless of your feelings on it, has added friction. Games promised to Steam users are being delayed or going full Epic exclusive and many users are saying "fuck that, we're not getting railroaded into using a launcher we didn't like" and turning to piracy instead.

A lot of people said that about Steam and yet it became what it is today, with many titles that now require Steam (unless you pirate).

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by voltagex_ on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:27PM (#21800795)
It's funny/sad - if you check the exes for a lot of Epic Store games, there's no DRM - better the DRM you know than the (no) DRM you don't?
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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by Lorkki on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:39AM (#21801387)
Steam doesn't require use of its DRM either, and it's well-known that several titles don't have any: https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by ta999999171 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:18PM (#21800759)
Which was great, for the same reason Netflix was great - when they were first-mover and had everything.
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