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  2. Video game piracy - Wikipedia

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    A form of this is the sale of games on digital distribution platforms, such as the Epic Games Store, Blizzard's Battle.net, and Steam. Steam offers proprietary features such as accelerated downloads, cloud saves, automatic patching, and achievements that pirated copies do not have. The purpose of these features is to make piracy look less ...

  3. Copy protection - Wikipedia

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    Copy protection for computer software, especially for games, has been a long cat-and-mouse struggle between publishers and crackers.These were (and are) programmers who defeated copy protection on software as a hobby, add their alias to the title screen, and then distribute the "cracked" product to the network of warez BBSes or Internet sites that specialized in distributing unauthorized ...

  4. Valve Anti-Cheat - Wikipedia

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    Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002.. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [1]

  5. How To Refund Games On Steam - AOL

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    Buying games on Steam is designed to be as quick and easy as possible, providing minimal friction between your desired content and your wallet. It’s helped by a catalog of tens of thousands of ...

  6. Intellectual property protection of video games - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed]) The law in India does clearly state that a "literary work" includes computer programs [40] and hence by extension, the source code of video games can be protected as software or literary work. Unlike the US, in India, different aspects of a game, like the art, code, gameplay mechanics etc. are copyrightable independently. [41]

  7. List of controversial video games - Wikipedia

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    Originally titled Active Shooter, the game was developed by Revived Games, and was published by Acid Games in June 2018 on Steam. The game presented a first-person shooter based on a fictional school shooting scenario, with the game's description stating that the player can choose to be the SWAT team member to take down the suspects, or the ...

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    Discover the best free online games at AOL.com - Play board, card, casino, puzzle and many more online games while chatting with others in real-time.

  9. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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    Online piracy has led to improvements into file sharing technology that has bettered information distribution as a whole. Additionally, pirating communities tend to model market trends well, as members of those communities tend to be early adopters.