Steam

[Husar]

Thanks, I have three questions about Steam.

1) Why does Steam insist on granting themselves the right to automatically install any software they want on my PC as a condition of installing their client? Isn't that behavior similar to a trojan? ( see Section 2 of the Steam subscriber agreement: http://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement )

Probably because that is easier than saying they want you to allow them to download patches for game a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, aa, ab, ac, ad, ae, af etc. and then let you check a box each time when they add games bc, bd, be, bf, etc.

My mainboard also came with a BIOS that I cannot remove without making it cease to work, isn't that behaviour similar to a rootkit?
Why would Valve load trojans onto your computer using a platform they spent enormous amounts of money and energy building up to what it is now? Someone would find out and they could possibly close the whole thing down, probably get sued and be out of business in no time, yes that must be what they had in mind all the time.

2) Is Sega/CA aware that EA just got sued for bundling Spore with SecureROM (which has features similar to Steam that ended up causing massive problem for Spore users)? Link about the EA lawsuit: http://www.gearfuse.com/electronic-a...ver-spore-drm/

So which are those features similar to Steam and why has Valve not been sued over anything like that due to the hundreds of games available on Steam so far?

3) What do people think abotu the following description of Steam from Slashdot:

I think that when your countries fuel stations go out of business or just so decide not to sell you fuel anymore, you can push your car.