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Nobody is doubting ownership. The problem is your (a).



If the binaries are freely redistributable but worthless without the blockchain auth, then it's harmless to let any torrent site host them, right?


> If the binaries are freely redistributable but worthless without the blockchain auth

How can that happen in our right‐click‐save world?


Other way around. The idea is that anybody can right-click-save whatever game they like. But when you run the game, the first thing it would do is check your blockchain wallets for authorization to execute this game.

Basically, accept that your game media will be copied willy-nilly and do a "does the user actually have ownership rights to this" check that is already common today, except that do this check against the blockchain so that there isn't a single-point-of-failure by putting all reliance on the vendor's auth servers.


So if one person posts a private key that owns the wallet then anyone can verify that they own the game with a local copy of the blockchain.


Binaries are not freely redistributable




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