It's like a bad scifi thing where the tech morons privatized the air but made zero efforts in enforcement. Then they just keep paying some company for breathing rights while everyone else is just breathing. Then they get mad people are breathing without paying.
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?
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.
“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.
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I’m 100% Right clicka
Most NFT folks I've encountered are practically tech bro caricature, so I can believe it.
NFTs but they're all videos of these dorks getting dragged off to be re-educated
It's actually way more stupid than that
One thing is paying for photos/ilustrations made by someone who has to earn a living and then you are the owner of that thing and can decide share it (not always legal, depending on you buying the copyrights to it) or keep it to you. This is not that.
NFTs are not-even-a-paper that says you are The Owner of an image posted somewhere online accesible to anyone.
But you don't have the copyrights.
Even more:
You don't own the site or URL where the internet image is hosted. The actual owner of the site can change the original image to whatever, for example PPB.
It's just a ridiculous "CryptoThing" with which dorks dream to scam idiots/especulate/launder money. It's basically what the Fine Art business is at its bare bones. A scam.
I cant right click and save, print out copies to sell them, and how are you going to prove you actually own the image?
