Binary Representations + Digital Ownership
2Today we talked about how binary (0s and 1s) can be used to represent different things, such as numbers, letters, images, and so forth.
Binary is a "base 2" system, meaning each digit is twice as high as the value to its right, in the same way that our normal decimal "base 10" numbers are 10x the values to their right. In decimal 923 = 900 + 20 + 3, right? So in binary 111 = 4 + 2 + 1.
We then talked about the very odd concept of digital ownership. What, exactly, are you buying when you buy a game? What rights do you have to play that game in the future? Some companies like EA are very bad with this - they let people spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a game (loot boxes, yo) and then shut down servers a couple years later, leaving people unable to play either part or the whole game, forcing people to buy the latest game over and over.
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