Comment on The History and Future of Digital Ownership

CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nfts don’t give you ownership over anything but the nft itself. Everything else is a license system that says, “You can have this because you have an nft,” you know, the exact same system we have now but will more bullshit .

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  • nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s quite amazing that these people don’t realize that they’re just reinventing DRM, but worse.

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  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The NFT is the item though, and it can be easily resold

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So? If the licence holder wanted, they could just put an option in for you to sell what you have. The nft does not matter. It is not needed and is just added bullshit

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      • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you think they can force me to sell?

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A movie is not an NFT…

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Less shit. You could actually trade your fucking games and would not be limited to one platform

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you’re still limited to one platform, the vendor has to recognise the NFT, and vendors are only going to recognise their own NFT’s that they saw value from selling.

      there is no benefit to bullshit NFT tokens, unless you are running a ponzi scheme.

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    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then those games would be subject to Gresham’s law LMAO. I would never trust a company that allows transfers between platforms.

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      • mammut@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• GrayBoltWolf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or just let us download the actual game/movie/song like the good old days.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what GOG lets you do for games.

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    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didnt know you could download from GoG, thought it was all in browser. Thats pretty sick tbh

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        GOG is a last bastion of freedom LOL.

        If people want to screw devs by pirating games, they’re just going to do that and it’s pretty clear there’s nothing you can do about it

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  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, thats what I did when I bought my NFT game. Its in my wallet and I can play it forever, steam or Microsoft or epic or whatever can never take it away from me.

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    • atocci@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where are the streams being hosted though, or where do you download them from? From my understanding, the biggest problem with NFTs is that the NFT itself is nothing more than a token on the blockchain that states you own something, but the files themselves are hosted elsewhere, so if the service hosting the file stops existing, you are left with a token that points to nothing.

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      • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Depends on the item, the platform its being sold on, etc, but I believe most NFTs are hosted on the IPFS platform which is censor resistant

        Some NFTs actually point to physical objects and have the digital token as a “certificate of authenticity”. Ive got a holographic skate deck from a EDM artist shipped to me, has an NFC badge on it for more goodies in the future

        The tech is pretty cool, imo, and has a lot of modern use cases.

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• SnuggleSnail@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So… you have the full game encoded in an NFT? That sounds like a shit ton of overhead.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No… just the licence

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    • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So what’s the difference?

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can trade digital games with anyone with no third party involvement

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