You have a string of bits. If the service shuts down that wont help.
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Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThis is where blockchains can be useful.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Really appreciate GOG’s model instead, just give me a locally installed executable that doesn’t depend on a storefront.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t apply to streaming media. You’re free to cache your media if you can store it, since you own it, but that’s not true of all people and all media. How does steam verify you own something from gog if gog shuts down? They don’t unless a distributed ledger exists, then they could.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
do you store entire game binaries and assets in your fucking blockchain? fucking 150gb games in the fucking blockchain? how fucking big is this thing? who hosts it?
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, it seems you and many others fundamentally misunderstand that a blockchain is a distributed ledger as primary functionality, not a data store as such. It stores proof of ownership, that you purchased it from an authorized registered distributor, that’s it. Just to be thorough, all ledgers require further external consensus for functionality.
In this case, a service (who stores and sends the big file) must recognize your token as ownership. What this solves is that when movie x is bought from Amazon and moves to Streamio and then moves to Paramount, you can load your token into Paramount and Paramount can see your token was created by warner brothers, so they can legally serve you Blazing Saddles without contacting Amazon or Streamio, which since has gone out of business.
Today, when they move licenses or whatever else happens, you lose whatever you bought. With a distributed ledger you automatically have proof of purchase to any entity that is able and willing (or legally forced) to use that ledger for validation, and no single entity can just erase your ownership like they can and do today.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Cool, a proof of ownership database.
Doesn’t do a damn thing when the owned data is removed or when the host decides they don’t care about that particular period of ownership database.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It allows you to easily move to another host which isn’t otherwise possible. Your criticisms are endemic to all media, so are moot. You personally don’t have to stream, you can buy a physical copy and rip it and store it locally, be my guest.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
The string of bits doesn’t have to be part of an expensive blockchain though, it can just as easily be a generated uuid. In either case, the technology relies on multiple parties honouring your claim.
Hell it could be tied to an email address and nothing else.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes it needs support, as almost all blockchains do, they are public consensus models. All it needs is for a token to connect to a specific piece of media. You prove ownership of that token and the streaming service honors your ownership. You move steaming services? They still honor your ownership. Likely also needs legislative support to enforce honoring the token and enforce studios to provide same access to all distributors.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m torn between not wanting universal DRM and wanting to break up platform specific DRM.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think there are 2 types of drm, one is invasive and the other is permissive. Everything needs some sort of Auth and permission drm, and usually it sits in a company dB and if they go under or remove it, you lose Auth. I think that type of system can be better under a blockchain model, moving universal ownership to a decentralized ledger. Services still must recognize the ledger as valid, but then no single provider is the arbiter of your ownership and Auth.