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Trading digital content and keeping everyone happy: the next-generation problem to solve. And it seems like Apple's already started trying. A patent published today but filed last summer - Managing Access to Digital Content Items - has a bunch of bright ideas about how trading and even loaning digital content could work.Incidentally this isn't just for trading books or games or music or apps, it's also for sharing digital content between devices you own. There's even a technique for allowing content to be shared by proximity to a host device.
"This may be useful in games that can only be played with or nearby the original owner or in an educational setting where students can only, for example, watch a movie in the presence of a school teacher (who may be the original owner)," the patent, spotted by Apple Insider (via GamesIndustry International) pointed out.
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