[CryptoGhost]

Nvidia should partner with Steam. Steam has enough meta-data on user accounts to be able to offer a level of certainty about how accurate and authentic a given account and it's user information is. You could then use a trusted enough Steam account as a one-per-customer method to sell a card to.

You wouldn't have to monkey around with hardware freedom and even if a person decides to re-sell it at least it had the chance of being used by a "real gamer" first.

[thomastjeffery]

That would be much worse than this.

[0xfaded]

I'm in the market for a card for computer vision stuff, but don't have steam.

[CryptoGhost]

Understood but Nvidia is justifying the changes by saying "we’re taking an important step to help ensure GeForce GPUs end up in the hands of gamers."

[thomastjeffery]

Games are the main audience that benefits, but not the only intended one.

Really, any consumer who isn't buying the card for mining is the intended beneficiary here.