This is topic where I´m missing old days in forums/discussions when you could use not only positive thumb up but also negative thumb down.
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Hm, yes. Not such a good idea it seems.
There’s some incentive for a sales/marketing guy to make this all public in order generate viral grassroots interest or whatever the hell they call it now. This guy is probably paid to do this on other gaming forums and probably has prepared post templates where he just needs to swap out “Grim Dawn” with some other game.
MY vision is that the entire concept of NFTs burns down to the ground with not even ashes remaining.
The entire thing is essentially a scam with people essentially paying for the “ownership” of something virtual which no one has any way of actually enforcing it.
Behold, this glorious piece: 
Let us say that I end up selling it through NFT or whatever. There is nothing preventing someone from simply copying it from here for free and the person who bothered to pay for it essentially plays the fool. For stuff regarding copyright and all that, we already have a perfectly useable system and there is no need to try and “reinvent the wheel”.
The last thing I want to see is that cancer spreading to video-games as well. I rather leave it to the realm of people buying taped bananas for thousands of dollars.
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Hello future gamers reading this on archive.org.
i wan’t to apologize for what we have done to gaming and that we allowed all the things that have happened to gaming.
ps. this is all to sad to attach the south park we’re sorry picture D=
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actually there is a need. The current copyright system is anything but perfect, it’s antiquated and needs a complete overhaul. In my opinion copyright should be abolished competely and replaced with something better. Creative Commons is a step in the right direction.
Creative Commons is based on copyright… there is a need to protect investments in research from people just using the results for free if they cannot be protected, whether the current copyright system is working well is a different question 
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is that a good thing though? If research results were free for anyone to use and build further upon, maybe technology and science would be much more advanced. Or maybe not, because not too many people would invest in open source projects to begin with. Greed and personal gain seem to be the main driving forces behind most endeavors in the current economic and social system, maybe that general mindset has to change before things like copyright can change.
It absolutely is a good thing. If companies could not benefit from their research (that is have it exclusively for a while to make a return on their investment), then there would be a lot less incentive to do any kind of research.
What is then left would be universities, NASA and other publicly funded research institutes / programs
Keep in mind that we have copyright not so that companies can make a lot of money but so that research is encouraged, which benefits society as a whole. The trick is striking the right balance between the two, so the benefit to society is maximized. I’d say right now that is not the case and instead companies profit too much / for too long, but the solution is not to throw out copyright / patents altogether
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the Gordon Gekko type of good
quite the opposite if you read the rest of my reply
what I’m trying to say is, we have nothing better. At least not yet.
No we don’t. As you said, we would need different humans first if you wanted a more / purely altruistic approach where all research is shared for the good of society without needing any other incentive / reward.
This also is why Communism never worked
Let us agree to disagree on that.
OMG…wtf is the gaming world coming to…
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