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Digital art where royalties are "enforced" requires a dystopian DRM hellscape. Digital "gold" is a meaningless term. Retail without 3% going to Visa...instead

Digital art where royalties are "enforced" requires a dystopian DRM hellscape. Digital "gold" is a meaningless term. Retail without 3% going to Visa...instead some variable percent will go to transaction fees.

nailer 3y ago
You are already in a dystopian DRM landscape and have been for 20 years since general purpose computing died and all computer hardware from your BIOS to your monitor cable already enforces DRM. The FSF was right. That’s off topic though. Distributing royalties to artists is just something called programmable NFTs. It’s just cryptography - a program enforces the artist’s account is credited to allow a transfer and it’s not a big deal. artists are absolutely making money from this. It fixes an issue in traditional art where the resale value of an artists earlier works increases however, the artist doesn’t see any of those returns. Transaction fees on modern layer 1 crypto platforms are 0.0025 cents. The meaning of the term Digital gold is an asset that is not subject to quantitative easing from the government. I.e. one cannot mine vast quantities of Gold or produce vast quantities of new bitcoins very easily. Pardon the edits, I am using voice dictation, as I’m having trouble using my hands.
- danaris 3y ago
  > You are already in a dystopian DRM landscape... This is a non sequitur. "Some software uses draconian DRM" is neither the same as, nor a refutation of, "enforcing ownership of digital goods like art requires draconian DRM."
  - nailer 3y ago
    Sorry landscape should have read Hellscape as you wrote but I was using voice dictation, as my fingers aren’t working. I am not asserting that some software uses DRM as if DRM is the exception. I am saying that we are in the hellscape You described when nearly everything that wants to uses DRM.

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Digital art where royalties are "enforced" requires a dystopian DRM hellscape. Digital "gold" is a meaningless term. Retail without 3% going to Visa...instead

by giantrobot 3y ago

nailer 3y ago
You are already in a dystopian DRM landscape and have been for 20 years since general purpose computing died and all computer hardware from your BIOS to your monitor cable already enforces DRM. The FSF was right. That’s off topic though. Distributing royalties to artists is just something called programmable NFTs. It’s just cryptography - a program enforces the artist’s account is credited to allow a transfer and it’s not a big deal. artists are absolutely making money from this. It fixes an issue in traditional art where the resale value of an artists earlier works increases however, the artist doesn’t see any of those returns. Transaction fees on modern layer 1 crypto platforms are 0.0025 cents. The meaning of the term Digital gold is an asset that is not subject to quantitative easing from the government. I.e. one cannot mine vast quantities of Gold or produce vast quantities of new bitcoins very easily. Pardon the edits, I am using voice dictation, as I’m having trouble using my hands.
- danaris 3y ago
  > You are already in a dystopian DRM landscape... This is a non sequitur. "Some software uses draconian DRM" is neither the same as, nor a refutation of, "enforcing ownership of digital goods like art requires draconian DRM."
  - nailer 3y ago
    Sorry landscape should have read Hellscape as you wrote but I was using voice dictation, as my fingers aren’t working. I am not asserting that some software uses DRM as if DRM is the exception. I am saying that we are in the hellscape You described when nearly everything that wants to uses DRM.