&gt;Owning your own movie or game was never all that cool - what with losing them, or scratching the CD, or the platform changing so they didn&#x27;t run any more. Steam beats all that, at a cost of course.<p>So we replaced a flawed physical medium with a digital medium which, theoretically, should solve all those problems. But dark patterns, bad licensing terms, and loads of other problems (that are often the results of purposeful decisions) make that digital medium just as flawed.