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Comment and discussion on Valve Software’s digital communications platform. which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers. Here are the facts: any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s new localisation strings. will be able to identify a computer using software only; this will be inherently less secure than hardware identification but better than nothing. The system that already prevents stored login details being copied to different computers will presumably be used. authorising other computers (given the dependence on email account integrity that it entails) is disabled when hardware identification is active. There is no word yet on what will happen should your CPU explode when your account is in hardware mode, but the process will quote is “available to third parties to incorporate into their own applications through Steamworks,” but why would anyone want to re-implement what Steam already gives them? I can only speculate that either this is marketing hype (like the utterly redundant CEG While Valve have tolerated this in the past, actually offering it as a part of Steamworks — if that is the plan — would be a big step. Notwithstanding the above, enabling Steam Guard on your Steam account is optional. This might seem like an pretty good move by Valve, but using purpose-built hardware to ensure that a computer can be trusted to be upholding certain conditions. Most often those are that unauthorised code isn’t running, but in this case it’s that a single, particular CPU is in use. The key is that unlike DRM, which is The rights and wrongs of this are a matter of personal opinion. But having seen Steam suffer suspicion and even hatred while it was establishing itself I can’t help but be if not quite pro-TC, then anti-anti. It’s certainly clear that Steam Guard will make the world I make this point in order to to ease myself into the second paragraph, where I link to Digital Distribution Review