[ynniv]

Digital ownership is enforced by the code that’s interpreting the data, so the app publisher is the organization responsible for enforcing property rights. Tokens signed by an app-trusted key solve the problem with almost zero resource cost.

[ravingraven]

Digital ownership is enforced by laws and nothing else. There is no amount of code that can technically prevent me from copying any data that lands on my system.

>Tokens signed by an app-trusted key solve the problem with almost zero resource cost.

This ensures safety against access and not against copying. Of course I can not copy assets I don't have access to but the same is true for NFTs.

[ynniv]

I’m not aware of any legal protections available to the person holding the private key that last signed an NFT. Digital property rights are enforced by client apps / DRM as well as legal trade agreements, but legal enforcement will be based on traditional registrations and won’t cover on-chain NFT transactions. You can buy my house’s NFT, but I will still legally own my house. Since, as you point out, DRM can always be broken, there is effectively no enforcement of NFT property rights at all.

[ravingraven]

Please refer back to my original comment about people hearing NFTs and for some reason which I fail to understand jump to "physical property". NFTs do not work for physical property but they do for digital.

Enforcement of digital rights is actually easier via NFTs than contracts/client apps etc. because NFTs mathematically can prove ownership (courts just have not caught up yet).

[joncrocks]

It can be enforced by hardware, and by not allowing the digital asset to be accessible on a system without hardware restrictions present.

As all things, technically, theoretically possible to circumvent, but you can make it exceedingly difficult.

[ravingraven]

No, you can't. Netflix, Youtube etc. (arguably the largest players in the digital properties game right now) have demonstrably failed to do so.