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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago

'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube

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'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube

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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago

Tech accessory company dbrand has canceled its Steam Machine Companion Cube enclosure effective immediately because it didn't ask Valve for permission to make it in the first place.

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You are not wrong but as a business forced to operate in the shitty boundaries of copyright and capitalism, this was a fairly silly move

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