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Comment by Aeolun | Hacker News Reader

Yes, and I bought a license that allows me to play them on any machine that has Steam installed. Whether it’s a machine I bought, or one that I rent from AWS or Google. Why is renting a PC from Nvidea any different?

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I find it unlikely that the license agreement and AUP of steam, and in addition of the game you purchased, which might have its own stipulations, is that simple and open.

Feel free to supply evidence to the contrary though. I would be happy to be wrong.

At some point we're going to have to stop letting EULAs and other click-through contracts supersede basic consumer rights. For example, when/why did we lose the right to resell stuff we bough?

> in addition of the game you purchased, which might have its own stipulations

Since I don’t see any additional agreements when I buy/play the game on steam it seems unlikely there is one.

It seems the steam license agreement only allows you to make non-commercial use of paid games. I can imagine that Nvidia just didn’t want to go into the battle of whether pre-installing steam content that (other) users have already paid for constitutes a violation of that provision.

Could be that the service provider doesn't want to delete the game files when you log out, then reinstall the game from steam on a different computer in their network when you sign on next time. In fact, doing so would probably ruin the experience.

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