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> Physical goods are only going to get more rare as our digital economy grows What is the reasoning to back this up?
by tyleo 5y ago
> Physical goods are only going to get more rare as our digital economy grows
What is the reasoning to back this up?
- werber 5y agoThe scarcity of an item like a 25 year old Nintendo game will only increase with time, I think was the authors intention
- AstralStorm 5y agoAnd why would that be scarce if we had, say, a way to perfectly clone such items? It's actually quite trivial to do, only copyright is stopping that. The original has no intrinsic value over a perfect physical copy. (As opposed to a reproduction.)
- mensetmanusman 5y agoValue is subjective. People value original artwork even though we can do per pixel exact copies beyond the resolution limit of human vision :)
- AussieWog93 5y ago>It's actually quite trivial to do, only copyright is stopping that. That's not true at all. I sell games as a business and have to check them for authenticity. Things like print patterns and tactile properties of the gloss are both incredibly consistent across the genuine product and nearly impossible to reproduce perfectly. There are plenty of $1000+ games that have been around for decades, and not once has there even been a repro made that could pass as genuine to even an amateur. As far as copyright goes, outright pirate carts have been a thing since the atari days.
- bombcar 5y agoPart of it may be that many cultural things do not have a physical representation (or they're greatly curtailed). Every copy of World of Warcraft was sold in a box - but many copies of the latest expansion were sold digitally, no box to preserve at all.