YSK: when you buy digital media online, you don't own it, you're just licensed to watch it. that can be taken away.

I thought it was rather obvious from my comment that not every game published on Steam uses the Steamworks wrapper with DRM, but I guess not.

Let me rephrase it: Steam offers a simple wrapper that most games use if they want to integrate Steam features in their games. This wrapper includes a DRM module which the documentation greatly recommends to enable. Basically all games running Steamworks do this.

The primary function of the "DRM module" isn't even DRM, it's making sure that Steam is even running so that the rest of the modules will actually work. You'll be hard-pressed to find a Steamworks game that does not have the DRM module included.

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