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Steam is now banned in Vietnam (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 6 months ago by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How do you even stop distribution of malware though? For a second or two I thought this would be a really cool idea to start working on; but assuming everyone can spin up their own instance there's nothing that would stop someone with evil intentions to create a fake store that federates with all good storefronts.

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Same as torrents, some form of signing keys?

I was thinking federation for the social aspect of it, not the distribution aspect of it.

Distribution would be "the usual". Stores acquire software, and licenses, store and serve the data through a server. Client software solve installation and integration between games and social stuff, like friends, messages, networking and achievements.

I mean, it's not a one person project, but if I were supreme leader of Vietnam and had the people and resources to be working on providing video game entertainment for the masses, that's how I'd be thinking about it. Not that software skills and supreme leader skills have any overlap...