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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by jjeaff on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:48PM (#21909820)
I shudder to say this, but that might actually be a use case for blockchain. A shared distributed ledger that an ebook reader consults before opening an ebook.
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by est31 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @09:25PM (#21910270)
Yeah the "don't let people sell used books twice" problem maps pretty well to the "prevent double spend" problem that blockchains (try to) solve.
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