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Patrick Higgins: We no longer basically have the right to resell media that we buy, if we buy it in a digital format instead of a physical format. We no longer really have the unrestricted right to repair our physical devices if they've got software involved, versus previously. And so where our rights have been diminished there, I'm interested in t... See more

PH: But sure, or play a game on your Xbox and Your PS5. I don't think that the engineering problem there is solved by a blockchain. But, it's possible that the social problems or the impediments that are based on industry personality and stuff like that, those could go away if everyone got focused on solving the same problems at the same time. If t... See more

There are a few creative fields where copyright doesn’t apply. Comedy is one of these. You basically can’t obtain copyright on a joke, but if you start copying another comedian’s jokes you are going to get shunned from the community.

DA: Well, totally. I feel the same way about like, why can I not pay 10 cents to read a fucking New York Times article? I realize that people have been proposing companies that would build this layer for so long. Some of them already exist. So maybe it's stupid to hope that blockchain would do it, but at the same time it's not a question of where d... See more

Parker Higgins: “What do you feel like you own” is actually a reasonably good definition of ownership. The verb “to own something” can have a lot of different definitions and can imply a lot of different rights and powers and abilities to restrict and that sort of thing.