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Now let's go one step further and quit purchasing games with DRM from a particularly large PC gaming service
I can't fathom how anyone has an issue with Steam, they're one of the only straight shooters in the game.
Read their EULA, you license your "purchase". You don't own your games. Steam also injects their own DRM onto the vast majority of games.
The vast majority of digital purchases are licenses, this isn't something new or unique to Steam. Digital purchases where you actually own the product are more the exception than the rule.
Then let's support the good companies to make it the rule and not exception. The market won't change until the consumer tells them what's important
Even when you were buying games on physical media, you didn't own the software itself. You just owned a disc with the software on it.