I can think of a few other reasons other than the technology being new. But considering the general enshittification our civilization is going through, I can agree that this may be where it’s headed.
A decentralized ownership platform would be good for consumers. Currently all digital rights management is centrally managed by corporations and that ownership is revoked or lost when the company is sold or goes out of business.
We are talking about the topic you brought up - digital rights management. The thing that prevents you from using software (or, nowadays, even hardware) without a license is not some magical karma woven into the fabric of the universe. It’s code that the companies put in their product. No matter how much blockchain technology improves and not matter how much popular it gets - you still need these companies to actively implement NFT based DRMs. Why would they do that? Why would they relinquish control over their product? I jokingly said earlier that it’ll happen because the trend is to make everything worse, but companies that make their product worse do it to gain more control over their users and extract more money from them.
It can be used to make things worse, and it can be used to make things better. But they way it can be used to make things better:
Requires a cooperation from companies.
Is against the interest of said companies.
You are trying to argue that the very same companies that nowadays do all sort of convoluted things to take control and ownership away from their customers are going to use the blockchain to give control and ownership to their customers. I say it is much more likely they’ll use it for MTX gacha.
Also - blockchain based DRM is so easy to bypass. Just make a public wallet which only contains the key NFTs and share that wallet’s credentials around.
But no legal implications.
Not yet no. And for good reason as it is still fairly new. But ultimately that’s where it’s headed.
I can think of a few other reasons other than the technology being new. But considering the general enshittification our civilization is going through, I can agree that this may be where it’s headed.
A decentralized ownership platform would be good for consumers. Currently all digital rights management is centrally managed by corporations and that ownership is revoked or lost when the company is sold or goes out of business.
Which means companies have zero incentive to implement such mechanism for their DRMs.
Are we talking about something else now?
We are talking about the topic you brought up - digital rights management. The thing that prevents you from using software (or, nowadays, even hardware) without a license is not some magical karma woven into the fabric of the universe. It’s code that the companies put in their product. No matter how much blockchain technology improves and not matter how much popular it gets - you still need these companies to actively implement NFT based DRMs. Why would they do that? Why would they relinquish control over their product? I jokingly said earlier that it’ll happen because the trend is to make everything worse, but companies that make their product worse do it to gain more control over their users and extract more money from them.
First you said it would make things worse then when I told you it has the potential to make things better you said it wouldn’t happen. 🤷♂️
It can be used to make things worse, and it can be used to make things better. But they way it can be used to make things better:
You are trying to argue that the very same companies that nowadays do all sort of convoluted things to take control and ownership away from their customers are going to use the blockchain to give control and ownership to their customers. I say it is much more likely they’ll use it for MTX gacha.
Also - blockchain based DRM is so easy to bypass. Just make a public wallet which only contains the key NFTs and share that wallet’s credentials around.