Before you read into this article, we would like to state the following:
THIS IS NOT WHAT BITCOIN WAS MADE FOR!
This most likely will inflame people as DRM is all the headlines recently, especially with the recent launch of SimCity.
We like investments in Bitcoin, in fact we embrace it as it’s our sole income here. However some VC money is going to areas of Bitcoin investments that we are not that happy about.
We heard it on Good Authority (from the CEO of the DRM bitcoin startup) that at least 5 game makers, including LucasArts and EA are or at least were prior to the SimCity launch intending to fund his Video Game DRM company based on Bitcoin Technology.
What’s not clear is if it will be using bitcoins themselves, or if they will be using a fork of the bitcoin technology adapted for DRM purposes.
The concept is simple, each game will be assigned X numbers of micro bitcoins (or something similar) each time the game is installed, it will send X automatically to the game maker. When the balance is zero, the game will start asking for money or will be crippled.
The intent is to make sure that you only can install the game X number of times, otherwise you’re subjected to possible copyright infringement.
The encryption and validation of the clients will ensure that it is extremely difficult to be “hacked” as it’s based on bitcoin technology. Look at it this way, the same reason you can’t double spend bitcoins is the same reason you can’t double install a bitcoin protected video game.
Again we love bitcoins, but this… this is just wrong.
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