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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by vageli on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:47PM (#30266529)
> Legal enforcement legitimizes crypto as property. It expands the definition of property by institutionally conferring the status of "owned" to a functional configuration of bits distributed over thousands of computers.

Isn't this exactly how your access to digital content is mediated? A bunch of servers somewhere says that this user identifier is allowed to access this content.

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by kelseyfrog on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:24PM (#30266858)
I might be missing something with this analogy. Is there a legal component to accessing digital content that re-enforces its concept of being property? /gen

There are general similarities in computers mechanically enforcing access that applies to crypto-assets and digital content. I'm specifically interested in how the legal system confers additional properties or re-enforces these properties in digital assets that legitimize the properties institutionally.

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