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Actually the biggest problem in building marketplaces of any form - is getting enough users and service providers. The fact that a providers(publisher) cannot e

• derefr 11y ago
  Yes, but that's rather the point. Any system where IP owners can enforce their policies is very likely to not obey the first-sale doctrine or any other IP case-law. It won't be a digital tool for leveraging the IP rights we have; it'll be someone's store. (Probably either Amazon's or Apple's, realistically.) The only version of this tool that actually does what it's for is the one that's really hard to get off the ground and that would be reviled by every provider that touches it. But, unlike Bitcoin vs. fiat currency, this sort of a system would actually be flowing with the grain of the law—to the point that, in the end, if it survived, it would likely because governments mandated its use (or built their own versions of it, either-or) in order to more easily prove corporate IP asset ownership, calculate net worth for tax purposes, streamline the patent and trademark offices, etc.