I credit Valve's Steam for retiring me from software piracy, Spotify for retiring me from music piracy, and Netflix for retiring me from movie piracy.
And "the terrible quality of primetime network TV programs" for retiring me from TV piracy ;)
And "the terrible quality of primetime network TV programs" for retiring me from TV piracy ;)
I resisted for so long. But now my library is so big. I feel like half the random games I get are only available on steam or other like services anyways.
Then you need trakt, torrent search engines, and plex. ;)
Valve seems happy with it being good enough that just copying the game folder won't work, and thus pirates must seek out specialized tools.
Of course, all of that assumes the game in question even implements the Stream DRM. Which is completely optional on the game developer's side. Many do implement it, since they are pulling in the steam sdk anyway. (Even then it is not strictly needed, I've had steam achievements pop while running a DRM free version of the same game before, because the developer specially wanted that scenario to work. I suspect it also requires owning the game on steam. I wish I could remember which game it was that did this.)