[drewcrawford]

> The question is, what's the point of the DRM once you have something like Steam?

These decisions aren't made by programmers or people who otherwise deal with facts.

The point is that when your boss's boss asks why it's showing up on TPB, your boss can say "Look, we put DRM in it. We did the best we could. With more funding we could make the DRM system better."

The next project gets a few more hires (probably only DRM-related on paper), your boss practiced CYA, his boss practiced CYA, and everybody's doing great except the legal consumers of the product, who nobody really cares about anyway.