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I would love to see video game licenses as ERC-721 tokens that you buy and can use and move between the different digital game platforms out there. If you own the token in your wallet then the DRM or whatever system lets you play the game. If you don't own the token then no game unless you pirate it like today.

This would allow games to be purchased at many different competing stores (like you can with physical boxed games today) and also allow selling games on any market out there (again, like boxed games and ebay). It keeps all of the upsides of boxed games but since it is digital has all of the convenience of digital downloaded games.

This concept extends to all media like music, movies, etc but games seems like a great first use case. I hope someone at Valve pitches this idea.



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