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> Steam, Steam sales, and constantly updated games were the fixes to piracy.

Steam is a DRM platform.




While Steam itself certainly has DRM infrastructure, it's not required and easily bypassed. Valve allows other 3rd-party DRM solutions, but I'd argue that the built-in DRM is one of the less important aspects of steam.


There are plenty of games on Steam with no DRM at all, including Valve's own Half-Life and Portal games.




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