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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Sometimes I think I made the right decision to just get a huge harddrive and download all my favorite entertainment in drm free format. Movies, music, games, books. I saw this coming a mile away a decade ago. The only thing that will really hurt me is if/when Steam inevitably goes full corporate cucks and starts going hard on the DRM locking down my library.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago

I saw this coming a mile away a decade ago.

Ditto. I'm Canadian so our media libraries typically have sucked compared to the US. Back 10-12 years or so ago I remember Netflix making comments online about looking into blocking Canadians from using vpn's, DNS services and the like to access American Netflix.

Like..motherfuckers I've been pirating since June 1, 1999 when Napster came out, and several years earlier if we wanna count a wall of VHS recordings as piracy. I cancelled that day, and set up Plex. Now a decade+ and 30TB later I haven't had to worry about it for a second, and neither have over a dozen of my close friends lol.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

Yep. I'm 100Tb deep into that rabbit hole.

[–] Befernafardofo@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you save your steam games on a hard drive? I'm really interested in this possibility,I would also like to preserve some of my games on MY hardware

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yes you can install steam games on an external drive or seperate partition, but it still requires you to sign into account to access them, and if you try to say play the same game on two different computers at the same time with the same account steam will force you to close one of them. I recommend buying games off GOG when you can since they are truly DRM free you may not get cloud saves or workshop content but you aren't being bossed around by steam either.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

You don't really have to be connected to steam because they actually allow DRM-free games iirc. Obviously it depends on the game.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

There are many DRM free games on steam. Not quite as good as gog of course.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

GOG actually changed that policy to some degree. I don't think it's a guarantee that all GOG games are DRM free.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love my Plex library. I use YouTube Music because I think it's more convenient and fair for the price. It's one service for basically all music. Movies and shows, on the other hand, is an absolute cluster fuck. I'm perfectly happy to pay for good content, but I'm not okay with paying for 10 services where the content keeps shifting and disappearing and being retroactively edited so as not to offend "modern audiences."

Valve turned me from gaming pirate to VERY solid customer. Spotify turned me from music pirate to customer. I am patiently waiting for the visual media industry to pull their heads out of their asses.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you have enough technical computer knowledge to put commands in a terminal I highly recommend you check out and install Youtube-dlp (yt-dlp) I am an avid hoarder of music on my mp3 player and love being able to download a whole playlist from youtube (and other sites like bandcamp, soundcloud, vimeo, ect) and have it auto convert to music format and optionally number them in playlist order, with one command. It works with windows and most operating systems.

The best part is that theres no illegal activity involved. It uses the same technologies and rules a web browser uses to download and stream stuff normally.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

I appreciate that, but unless you can automate it through an iPhone app, I'm not interested. My life is complicated enough and I want my music access to be seamless.