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Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is "losing a sale" and not getting the money, right?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nfts, digital tokens, already exist. Their use, in the protection of copyright, is called drm. "Nfts" bring nothing new to the table of digital rights or copyright... And a whole host of stupidity.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Again, all of this already existed and will continue to exist with or without blockchain. There is very little novel in the implementation details of the tokens. The people who got the idea for "nft"s didn't come up with a new idea. This isn't some new math. The only portion of NFTs that is new is the cooperative signing... Which again, isn't a new concept either.

Right now, everything you described... Literally all of it... Ubisoft implements for their launcher and enforce with their drm solution.