No they didn’t, they just relied on people prefering the “easy” way. Buy+download+play.
But you can’t trade your games. Your license is tied to you. Physical media died due to steam. Hence trading and ownership. There is just GOG left where you buy stuff which is DRM-free and yours forever. BUT only old titles and SOME newer.
Huh? I don’t think Valve wrote any laws about this, or even lobbied for them.
No they didn’t, they just relied on people prefering the “easy” way. Buy+download+play. But you can’t trade your games. Your license is tied to you. Physical media died due to steam. Hence trading and ownership. There is just GOG left where you buy stuff which is DRM-free and yours forever. BUT only old titles and SOME newer.
That’s just providing better service than piracy, not any change in what is legal. Physical media is unrelated (or barely related)