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Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let's take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Helps that steam's DRM is piss-easy to crack, and good indie devs give you DRM-free redeemable copies if you show a proof of purchase (Klei my beloved)

[–] DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How do you go about getting drm free copies, email them? I love this dev already.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

When you buy one of their games on steam (In my case, Don't Starve), they come with a "CD Key" included which you can plug into their website to download your DRM-free copy. Alternatively if you buy it from GOG you just have a DRM-free copy out the gate.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago

That mindset allows them to keep doing it