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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by ChainOfFools on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:16PM (#28881887)
I guarantee some court of the 27th century will be deliberating the validity of someone's claim on Gliese 674 simply because they have the only documented claim anyone ever bothered to make, in the form of a vacuum preserved slip of foolscap naming their star registry buying ancestor as the owner.
Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by JeremyReimer on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:54PM (#28882350)
Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by munk-a on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:30PM (#28882806)
I can almost promise you this won't happen - since star registries have no claim to the rights they're selling. Most star registries I've ever seen are purely about naming and just because a town is named Munkton and I'm the sole descendant of the original owner doesn't mean I have any implicit claim to any of the town land - even undeveloped city land is still held by actual entities.

I will grant it is slightly possible if we have a data destruction period between now and the 27th century. Claims to property after the nazis were overthrown could often be made by jewish residents with very little proof due to the fact that all the real proof was intentionally destroyed. But even those could end up extremely contentious. You can read up on Jewish Restitution[1] and you'll see a lot of really difficult cases that had to be dealt with.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_claims_for_restitution...