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syzygyhack | 3 years ago

It's not a magic wand. It facilitates new decentralized systems, it doesn't somehow fix the old ones.

You're assuming a world where digital content is administrated and supported by a centralized organization. If they stop respecting the license, it becomes worthless, no one can argue otherwise and no one is trying to.

A world where digital content is administrated by anyone (including by the user themselves) and interops with other services (games, social apps, or otherwise) does not see the assets suffer or lose value when one such service shuts its doors. They can just be taken elsewhere. One game goes down, a fork goes up, etc.

Blockchain does absolutely nothing to fix what's broken with today's systems, it provides the infrastructure for the alternative.

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_aavaa_|3 years ago

All of that is beside the point since the discussion is about the old system. We are talking about closed-source games being sold through Steam.