Playstation was dead to me once they released the PS3 and did the bait and switch linux thing (again).
Why do you care what Sony does, just avoid them all together.
The only hope is governments deciding that you have a right (probably for a limited time, discs dont last forever) for you to have license Key that you can use, trade, barter or sell.
But who will manage a database of keys? I hate that I am going to say this: a blockchain of key/ownership? I cant think of any other decentralized method.
Or a home brew is going to happen that “rips” the hard drive on install and makes a copy on a USB or attached drive or something, but that brings us back to the problem: the hardware itself.
If you don’t own the machine, you don’t own the data. You DONT own the playstation because it is proprietary and you cant do anything with it.
I hate that I am going to say this: a blockchain of key/ownership?
Blockchain doesn’t necessarily need to have “Proof-of-Work” which is what makes Bitcoin and other cryptos so environmentally unfriendly.
It would be a fine method for tracking ownership from a trusted centralized source. And I mean “trusted” in the sense of “they probably won’t just make some shit up because they’d get wrecked in court”, not in terms of actual trust lol.
But you say “decentralized”, for most blockchain projects that’s just a buzzword lol, it’s very hard to actually pull off. Especially without a financial incentive ie operators taking a cut of every sale made.
Playstation was dead to me once they released the PS3 and did the bait and switch linux thing (again).
Why do you care what Sony does, just avoid them all together.
The only hope is governments deciding that you have a right (probably for a limited time, discs dont last forever) for you to have license Key that you can use, trade, barter or sell.
But who will manage a database of keys? I hate that I am going to say this: a blockchain of key/ownership? I cant think of any other decentralized method.
Or a home brew is going to happen that “rips” the hard drive on install and makes a copy on a USB or attached drive or something, but that brings us back to the problem: the hardware itself.
If you don’t own the machine, you don’t own the data. You DONT own the playstation because it is proprietary and you cant do anything with it.
Blockchain doesn’t necessarily need to have “Proof-of-Work” which is what makes Bitcoin and other cryptos so environmentally unfriendly.
It would be a fine method for tracking ownership from a trusted centralized source. And I mean “trusted” in the sense of “they probably won’t just make some shit up because they’d get wrecked in court”, not in terms of actual trust lol.
But you say “decentralized”, for most blockchain projects that’s just a buzzword lol, it’s very hard to actually pull off. Especially without a financial incentive ie operators taking a cut of every sale made.