“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

Post by Dylan16807 » Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 12:15 PM UTC

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That might matter in a niche case where the ownership of my moon share database entry is in dispute. (And each system has positives and negatives, blockchains aren't a strict upgrade.) But the potential authority over the actual moon is the same under both systems.

Ownership only ever matters when there's a dispute. If you go build a house on a piece of land, and nobody ever comes along and disputes whether you own that land, does it matter whether you do or not? I mean, we even built into our laws that if you do that and nobody disputes it for long enough, then you get to officially own the land.

Post by GDC7 » Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 12:17 PM UTC

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> NFTs are probably best thought of as a recapitulation of status goods into the digital world Status cannot be manufactured, it spurs naturally due to having rare things such as a big mansion, grammys, academy awards, winning the Super Bowl , winning the NBA title, winning the World Series etc. All those things are both rare and cannot be copied. NFTs instead are easily copied idividually (right click) or even in bu…

> NFTs instead are easily copied idividually (right click) or even in bulk as this torrent file proves. No, you're copying a piece of media that NFT links to. What you're not copying is a verifiable claim of spending unreasonable amount of ETH to have a record in blockchain pointing to that piece of media.

Post by detaro » Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC

GDC7 wrote: post #122

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... yes, licenses still rely on copyright law, well spotted. Is that supposed to be surprising or a novel insight?

How can you enforce copyright law when I right click an NFT piece of art, then print it and hang it in my home? You can't. Besides, NFT enthusiasts have the illusion that the graphic art market is big. It's not. Just think about how many people you know that have a painting in their home. And no, the IKEA type paintings do not count. I mean a genuine painting.

Post by robot_no_419 » Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 12:20 PM UTC

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You can build games that verify your NFT and allow you to use the art/resource in game. Well, until Steam deplatforms you I guess.

> You can build games that verify your NFT and allow you to use the art/resource in game. While true, the only one deciding whether you are granted the ingame usage is still the developer/publisher, so in that scenario you basically just did exactly the same thing as before: a database lookup to check if a player "owns" a particular item. Only this time with a much slower and more inefficient database. Nothing about…

Post by lottin » Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 12:23 PM UTC

dorkwood wrote: post #77

crispyporkbites wrote: post #17

NFTs are obviously a bit silly, BUT, it would be nice if things bought on platforms like Steam, Roblox, Amazon, iTunes etc. were transferable to other games/platforms. The platform providers would still need to agree that a specific blockchain / NFT is actually the source of truth, and so it's not really trustless. But the internet itself isn't perfectly decentralized either. I could see a future where developers cou…

So the idea is that when I play Call of Duty, I can wear the hat I purchased in Roblox? And when I'm in Roblox, I can use the character I purchased in Call of Duty? Is this something that players desire to do?