• Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    This in my opinion is one of the valid use cases of a blockchain/NFTs: they provide provable ownership of digital goods. This means that if implemented, in the future we could actually own games music movies ebooks etc. The only remaining step would be a decentralized torrent-like system that allows the users to download the licensed content that they own via their nft.

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      9 days ago

      I mean, I can actually own a bunch of stuff as long as it doesn’t have some sort of proprietary DRM bullshit attached to it.

      The problem isn’t that there’s no way to obtain media in a non-bullshit way. The problem is that distributors don’t want to provide media in a non-bullshit way.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 days ago

        Sure, you can still own digital media, but you can’t sell or trade it like you can with a physical copy.

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          9 days ago

          Meh. If life weren’t so focused on material gains and losses, I wouldn’t need to.

          It would also mean potential losses for the distributors, as people are (supposedly) less likely to buy directly for them.

          So, again, the problem isn’t the media, it’s the distributors.

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      9 days ago

      If you can’t modify it, sell it or know what the game software is even doing then calling that “ownership” would be rather lacking. I mean in terms of traditional ownership, not the modern definition: “page 69 of the EULA defines “purchasing” (the software) as a limited, non-transferable lease which can stop working at any time due to dependency on a proprietary server code we will never share I fucked your mom”.