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Legal limitations are inherently anti-engineering and not useful.
by Bancakes 5y ago
Legal limitations are inherently anti-engineering and not useful.
- dale_glass 5y agoCopyright is a social and not an engineering issue. It can't be solved by just code. Also, a NFT marketplace can't just ignore it forever. It's a .com, it's connected to a real person who can get in trouble. Also, no, engineering is ultimately in the service of people and has to work with human constraints in mind, including economics and law. Like they say, “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.” -- working under such constraints is why we have engineering, rather than just piling up bricks until there's no way for the bridge to collapse.
- Bancakes 5y agoI'm not saying it's unnecessary but forcing me to run DRM, HDCP, kernel level malware, and abide by arbitrary EULAs/copyrights is beyond the scope of the machine. My machine understands memory manipulations, not someone's-protected-memory non-manipulations. It is incorrect to burden our computer science with such trivia.
- dale_glass 5y agoI don't think anybody said anything about that. It's just that a marketplace based on at least theoretically selling unique copies of artwork can't really exist in this particular manner. Who made a given piece of art, and who has the right to sell it isn't an engineering issue, and makes no sense whatsoever to do in a decentralized manner.