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Yes. I made a post long ago on reddit explaining this in detail but can't really be bothered to find it. But basically you can solve this with crypto in fashio

Yes. I made a post long ago on reddit explaining this in detail but can't really be bothered to find it. But basically you can solve this with crypto in fashion that A) Allows you to actually own the game/movie B) Allows you to redownload it from third parties in case the first party disappears, including incentives for third parties to actually want to serve you the data C) Allows you to have a reasonable second hand market (such as with physical goods) that both allows you to resell your stuff, and doesn't completely cannibalize the IP owner because people buy the movie second hand for cents and immediately cell it for the same price after watching it. This is done with fees and/or timelocks and/or max transfers.

PeterisP 4y ago
You can't solve this with crypto alone without some (external, legal, non-crypto) way to force Sony (and others) to permit these conditions. The existence of some platform (crypto or otherwise) where (a) (b) and (c) are supported is not a solution, since obvious financial incentives and all the historical experience clearly show that Sony (and others) will distribute their content there if and only if that platform can prohibit these things, especially (c). The key problem is a misalignment of incentives where content producers have a strong desire to distribute things only in a user-hostile way and the market power to do so - it's a market problem, not a tech problem, it is not possible to solve this problem by providing some new user-friendly platform or technology.
- redox99 4y ago
  > You can't solve this with crypto alone without some (external, legal, non-crypto) way to force Sony (and others) to permit these conditions. My original reddit post explaining all this (it was only focused on games, but something similar could be done to movies) did include the fact that the game developer would indeed have external agreements with distributors/publishers/etc (think steam, gamestop, microsoft store, walmart, amazon, etc) to make all this work.

PeterisP 4y ago

You can't solve this with crypto alone without some (external, legal, non-crypto) way to force Sony (and others) to permit these conditions. The existence of some platform (crypto or otherwise) where (a) (b) and (c) are supported is not a solution, since obvious financial incentives and all the historical experience clearly show that Sony (and others) will distribute their content there if and only if that platform can prohibit these things, especially (c). The key problem is a misalignment of incentives where content producers have a strong desire to distribute things only in a user-hostile way and the market power to do so - it's a market problem, not a tech problem, it is not possible to solve this problem by providing some new user-friendly platform or technology.

redox99 4y ago
> You can't solve this with crypto alone without some (external, legal, non-crypto) way to force Sony (and others) to permit these conditions. My original reddit post explaining all this (it was only focused on games, but something similar could be done to movies) did include the fact that the game developer would indeed have external agreements with distributors/publishers/etc (think steam, gamestop, microsoft store, walmart, amazon, etc) to make all this work.