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> Why don’t we have a digital equivalent to this? This is the one place where NFTs make some sense. Ideally, such an ownership mechanism would be open and not
by AlexandrB 23d ago
> Why don’t we have a digital equivalent to this?
This is the one place where NFTs make some sense. Ideally, such an ownership mechanism would be open and not tied to the lifespan of a particular publisher - something that's hard to achieve in practice without a distributed system like blockchain.
- Sohcahtoa82 23d agoChanging how the ownership of a digital asset is tracked is completely moot when the digital asset is no longer retrievable.
- rrrhys 23d agoA guid works fine
- LocalH 22d agoI wouldn't say NFTs per se, but I do think a blockchain could help here. If you can point to a specific block that documents that you purchased a copy of a piece of media, you should also be able to transfer that block to another person.