Technology

58713 readers

3982 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

647

PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

128 comments fedilink hide all child comments

PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.::The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can make backups of games through the backup and restore menu. I assume that's what he means, unless he's referring to the limited selection of Drm free games

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Steam DRM is about the equivalent of having a lock that you can open with either a key or a security torx driver, it's not even riveted much less cast in one piece.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are those backups playable?

[–] prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you then restore them into Steam, yes.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, they still require Steam to run, so it's not really an offline copy, it's a backup that you could restore if the files got corrupted and you didn't just want to re-download it. But, it still requires Steam, etc?

[–] prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com 1 points 10 months ago

Yes. Was just explaining what was available / suggested by OP. It's definitely not the same as a DRM-free backup