Re:Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Get...
by bsedlm on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:19AM
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non-exclusive digital property does not play well with markets based on exclusive property. this is a problem in principle.
therefore I see two broad directions:
1. someone finds a way to have a market-like entity which is compatible with non-exclusive goods (like digital goods are). I am not sure what this could be... I don't think anybody is.
2. we give up the advantages of non-digital exclusivity and make every instance of digital information "unique" (say, like NFTs) and then police out whoever has copies of such unique-exclusive. in short: artificially enforced digital-exclusivity for everybody; I guess kinda like DRM.
I think there's a broad social (ideological) motion pushing along the digital-exclusivity path (number 2 above) towards a vision which somehow allows some small specialist group to keep all the advantages brought about by digital-non-exclusivity. I say this because of the way corporations act around open source ("well maybe a little bit") and free software ("ugh, icky") and because of recent trends in common views of open source.
therefore I see two broad directions:
1. someone finds a way to have a market-like entity which is compatible with non-exclusive goods (like digital goods are). I am not sure what this could be... I don't think anybody is.
2. we give up the advantages of non-digital exclusivity and make every instance of digital information "unique" (say, like NFTs) and then police out whoever has copies of such unique-exclusive. in short: artificially enforced digital-exclusivity for everybody; I guess kinda like DRM.
I think there's a broad social (ideological) motion pushing along the digital-exclusivity path (number 2 above) towards a vision which somehow allows some small specialist group to keep all the advantages brought about by digital-non-exclusivity. I say this because of the way corporations act around open source ("well maybe a little bit") and free software ("ugh, icky") and because of recent trends in common views of open source.