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juergen@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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juergen@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Hi again, this short little thing is going to be a short email on places to buy DRM Free EBooks. Because Amazon has taken away the ability for people to...
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    Once again, “if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”

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      Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.

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        Several Steam games are DRM-free and don’t even need Steam to be installed to play them: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

        For those games, you can just make a copy of the game directory.

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          A surprising number of big names on there.

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        I always look on itch.io and GoG first!

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        I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.

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