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Decentralized ownership and file storage using NFTs on low energy blockchains would solve this. But no, let's keep complaining about the same problems over and over while we keep chanting that crypto is evil and can't be used to solve said problems.

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Downloading the files to your hard-drive solves this, which we've been able to do since always, and yet here we are. It's not a tech problem.

Does it? Because I was just thinking that it's not an issue with digital goods only, they can do the same thing if you have a physical disk and need to activate the right to it using a key, they can just disable the key and that's it, about the guy about talking about NFTs and problem, this is not a problem that happened and needs to be solved, this is a problem for users that has been implemented, I'm sure they would find a way to make it exist even if the ownership was blockchain based.

Yeah, honestly this makes me think that the warez scene may be increasingly important in the future.

You can just as well use digital signatures with certificates, I don't understand why anyone would want blockchain backing this. In fact I have yet to see a practical application of blockchain outside of "investment"..

You can't just say "blockchain" and magically solve it.

You used to be able to. "Web3" is the magic word now.

My knowledge on blockchain is very limited so I don't understand how it could solve this problem. Can you elaborate?

He means you can mint an NFT to represent ownership, and store the game bytes on a decentralized file storage like IPFS.

It would be like driving a nuclear submarine to commute from Alameda to San Francisco.

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