Alpan
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There's nothing illegal about playing games on a computer you don't own (whether rented or free use at a friend's house or a library or whatever) and there's nothing illegal about streaming a video of the game you own from another location.
You're not incorrect, in fact the idea of Steam depends on this legality, but the definition of "a computer you don't own" is nevertheless stretched when one applies it to "many thousands of computers owned by NVIDIA". It is one thing to replicate one's Steam Library on another computer or two, or even a VPS, quite another to do so across any or all of thousands of computers owned by another company, in this case NVIDIA, rented out at subsidized prices. It's an unprecedented situation and probably a gray area.
I don't think this is a question of legality anyway. It's clear that this is a different ball game, and the publishers are merely seeking to capture some of the value unlocked by the GFN proposition, pulling out until they can reach an agreement.
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