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by entire-name 1690 days ago
I'd say it's less of a "BIOS update to fix a software bug" and more of a "BIOS update to provide control to the user to perform a workaround for a software bug whose fix requires at least two, but probably more, parties to rollout".
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fabianhjr 1690 days ago
The fix requires only one party to act: the publisher removing DRM which affects performance and compatibility without providing any benefit at all.
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jh86 1690 days ago
The DRM doesn’t provide any benefit… to you. It does benefit the developers and publishers.

Often you can find out what (if any) DRM is used before you purchase. Check out GOG.com if you want to avoid DRM entirely.

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fabianhjr 1690 days ago
> Check out GOG.com if you want to avoid DRM entirely.

I already avoid most DRMs since they don't normally run on Wine/Proton.

(As mentioned, cracks are available and are legal to use for compatibility and archival; though developing nor sharing them is, go figure. Recent document about such circumvention exemptions: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-10-28/pdf/2021-2...)

The other thing is that I use mostly FOSS stuff so I don't normally have to worry about DRM breaking things or causing me issues.

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salawat 1690 days ago
>The DRM doesn’t provide any benefit… to you. It does benefit the developers and publishers.

That's cool. I don't run software on my machines, using my power, using my bandwidth, and hw resources to make publisher's/developer's lives easier. They want it? They can keep it.

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