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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by samrus on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:12AM (#43379677)
Counterexample: steam

They seem to be the only ones who get how piracy can be fought. And its no secret either, gabe newell has that "piracy is a service issue" quote for anyone to read. Its just that these companies dont want to consider not squeezing the life out of their users for shareholder benefit

Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by Gigachad on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:43PM (#43382118)
Games have the best DRM of all though. They have extremely complex to crack software drm, integrate with 3rd party servers for online, and run the risk of installing malware if you get a bad cracked copy.

Steam does do a great job of making stuff accessible and convenient. But plenty of people would still pirate over paying $90 for the new game if it wasn’t so hard.

Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @07:39PM (#43383686)
The DRM provided by steam itself is pretty basic and crackable.