Since some Lemmy users have asked me via DM and also searched my other socials to ask me about my old bypass I thought I’d share my new one with Lemmy too.

I also uploaded the source in case anyone wants to look at it (or even extend it, who knows).

Sorry for the extraordinary wait.

Have fun guys :)

Edit: I should have known Lemmy wouldn’t like a semi private forum, even though it’s all about things like this there. Here is the already build SLSsteam.so + Source Code for anyone to download anonymously if they prefer it that way.

To use it just extract the SLSsteam.so somewhere and then start steam like this:

LD_AUDIT="/full/path/to/SLSsteam.so" steam

Building is easy too, just run the included build.sh

Credits:

  • Gnanf: Helping me test the Family Sharing bypass
  • rdbo: For his great libmem library, which saved me a lot of development and learning time
  • oleavr and all the other awesome people working on Frida for easy instrumentation which helps a lot in analyzing, testing and debugging
  • All the folks working on Ghidra, this was my first project using it and I’m in love with it!

Edit2: Uploaded update with more hooks because I just noticed family sharig still killed some games

  • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialOP
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    For example if your family sharing library has 1 license for a Game only one of it’s members will be able to play it simultaneously. This modification disables that lock for everyone using it

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      Does it put you in offline mode or is there some other kind of magic?

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        The lock is client sided, that’s the magic. You can play online just fine, I use it all the time to play multiplayer with my friends :)

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          They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games. Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.

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            They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games.

            Projecting much? I’ve been using mods like this for a good decade. Also Valve has way bigger fish to fry with their shitty abusable shop system, all the people selling Steam market items on other websites and so on. The list is long

            >Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.

            You know what community this is in, right? It’s all about bypassing and abusing the system to get shit for free

            Edit: Corrected some false statements on my part.

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              Huh? Thats not true. Dbzero the creator of this community is pirate by principle to fuck the bad companies , not to abuse and get shit for free from companies that treat their customers okay.

              • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialOP
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                3 hours ago

                Well then sorry for spewing false nonsense. I know Lemmy will flame me for this but Valve is still a soulless corporation fucking everyone over. Just not as much as most others

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                  far be it from me to defend any corporation, but doesnt this send wrong kind of a message to them? They didnt need to make family sharing, let alone remind you if you can already play a game through it when purchasing one. This isnt typical behaviour and should be allowed a little slack for it, to show other corporations that not being asshole is more profitable.

                  If valve goes bad then nothing is too horrible, but until that, its kind of bad form to stab a hand that offers a little kindness, even if their ultimate goal is to just make money by staying on top by having good will. I dont think we can expect to get anything better.

                  other corps dont seem to be getting the message that not being asshole is more profitable, but I think valve can very easily start thinking that being nice is weakness if that is exploited.

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                    You’re absolutely right in thinking that way, but this isn’t the only tool of it’s kind. The most popular one is GreenLuma, which has multiple thousands of users. So me making a similliar one for Linux doesn’t really matter in the grand scale of things