Player Attack: "Better late than never," laughs the Steam Linux Team, who has been hard at work porting the digital distribution service over to the new platform. Word on the street suggests that they're getting closer than ever to their goal, announcing an internal beta kicking off next week, with a "private external" launch sometime next month.
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
Steam now lets you add your hardware specs to reviews, helping players share performance details and make smarter buying decisions.
honestly it should be mandatory some of these people playing on a 10 year old laptop saying "game dont work"
The Quebec Games Celebration returns to Steam with over 300 Quebec-made games on sale from February 16 to 23, plus a new developer showcase.
Nice, if this works out and we see a lot of games go Linux it would save people a lot of money building custom computers.
The lack of major game support has been the only thing keeping me from using Linux full time. It would be sick if all the power-users/gamers made the switch to Linux because of this. I sure would.
I prefer Mint, btw.