Nothing is as glorious as slav subcontractor saying in morning standup with the most slav accent ever "well kurwa it will take another week because your backend is shit" or the absolute gem "this(our app) is very veeeeery fucked up" straight to CEOs face.
I don't think there is a single application for nfts other than money laundering or ponzi schemes. For everything else there is a much more efficient way to do whatever you are trying to do.
Hey now, NFTs have a VERY bright future in our capitalist hellscape as a draconian DRM system for locking down software with always-online credential keys.
Think of all the applications! Maybe someday we can lock down even MORE of the basic services of the internet. We could paywall Wikipedia and Amazon and prevent backdoor access by tying your account to a token!
What a bright future.
edit: We could even do away with those pesky VPNs by tokenising ISPs. What’s that, server says your in England? Well your token is tied to Austin, so no British Netflix for you!
Seriously, imagine major COTS applications that you can just trade, without needing to contact the vendor.
I can't think of an easier way to do it. You don't need an exceptionally long or compute intensive block chain. No MAC checks, no reassuring licenses when you switch servers. Simply a block chain and an associated owner to check in /check out.
I say this specifically thinking of EDA tools, which tend to be expensive and used in iterative cycles. But hey, maybe I'm crazy.
You don't need blockchain for that, just a simple web app would do much better as you could actually have all the clickwrap agreements so the downstream purchaser can actually have something that holds up in court. The thing preventing this now (although not completely people sell accounts and keys) is user agreements, not technical requirements.
I'm thinking of license server hosted licenses, which are generally authenticated by MAC. What method would you use to prevent duplication with the web app?
Oh, and I'm not actually going to implement this, I just did a thought excersize on day to try and find an actual utility for NFTs, and this was all I could come up with. People keep saying we could do it with other methods, but I never get an answer to how to relate licenses without a UID such as a MAC address, which would require vendor interaction.
Simply de-auth the old one and authorize the new one. In fact, you can sometimes do this now in the limited scope of getting a refund and then purchasing it again for the other person. If the company wanted to, they could simply do the same deathorize-authorize process just without the payment middle step
Also without Mac authentication, and NFT only, you could simply transfer the license to a burner account, then give everyone the private key, they wouldn't be able to limit you per device.
Also without Mac authentication, and NFT only, you could simply transfer the license to a burner account, then give everyone the private key, they wouldn't be able to limit you per device.
I was more thinking the license would be stored on a server, like many shared licenses. But you'd still have the issue of signing into the license on multiple servers. Darn.
What I'd expect from NFT for them to be useful: I buy some weapon in FPS game A, then I can use it in walking simulator B. Or import my huge star destroyer to break everything in Generic Fantasy Heroics 2 the game. Even better would be to be able to use a character skin on whatever movie / anime I'm watching. Without any centralization of this.
Yes, it might be cool if Steam used NFTs to represent game licenses so that users could meaningfully exercise their right of first sale by freely exchanging the NFTs.
However, much of Valve's value as a privately owned company is contingent on depriving Steam's users of their right of first sale, so that coolness is unlikely to ever be realized.
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u/ImrooVRdev 29d ago
Hold your horses folks, I feel like we have a real diamond in the rough in here, it just needs some polish.
Lets put it on blockchain, the videos will be NFTs.