• Three_Magpies [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Some grifter was trying to hype me on NFTs.

    “Isn’t it so cool?” She said, “You can purchase a photograph — a moment of history — and you have complete ownership of it.”

    I should have called her a monster. How the fuck does it benefit anyone if rich assholes can pay to steal images from the public and put them into some private studiolo?

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      3 years ago

      I should have called her a monster. How the fuck does it benefit anyone if rich assholes can pay to steal images from the public and put them into some private studiolo?

      That's not how it actually works though, it's just an entry in a ledger.

      Left column is the ID of a wallet, right column is URL or something pointing to an image.

      This affects the public domain in no way at all. You don't own anything.

      If you or someone has the password to the wallet, you can submit a new entry for that same NFT that points to the ID of a different wallet.

      If you happened to own the website hosting the image, you can replace it with PPB at any time, regardless of what wallet the NFT belongs to.

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      “You can purchase a photograph — a moment of history — and you have complete ownership of it.”

      You can do that by hiring a photographer, right now.