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Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by pessimizer »

nsomaru wrote: post #39
captaincaveman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your not buying the rights, that's the most annoying thing about NFTs, that people don't get.

I looked this up the other day and I might be wrong but it seems like in most jurisdictions even if you buy a meatspace piece of art you do not own the actual copyright on the work. While I’m not a fan of NFTs this does somewhat weaken the proposition that any “rights” cannot be sold with NFTs because IIRC this is the status quo in meatspace art purchases too.

The people who bought the pitchbook for the Dune movie that was never made should have looked it up, too.

Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by gpmcadam »

WilTimSon wrote: post #2

It's astonishing to me that people will just buy into any success story that involves crypto and NFTs. People don't question why poorly drawn pictures are being bought for thousands of dollars, don't question why there are hundreds of altcoins on the market and some "cryptocurrency experts" are supposedly "offering free tips" on investment. The whole space is rife with scams and embellishments and yet there are so ma…

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by pessimizer »

Rarebox wrote: post #46
cuteboy19 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is largely because there is almost nothing you can do with crypto apart from speculate and gamble. The more I learn about stuff like defi the more I understand just how fractally useless crypto is.

You can buy drugs and other illegal things off the internet (tor), that's very useful for some people. Basically crypto allows for transactions that could otherwise be blocked or easily tracked by central parties (1). It can also be used to bypass gambling laws. For legal purchases and activities crypto is useless, regular money is much more practical. [1] depending on which crypto and how it's used tracking is possi…

> You can buy drugs and other illegal things off the internet (tor)

Can you? After that huge bust a few years back, I figured that particular usage was marginal at this point. Seems like the only use for crypto is ransomware, dodging taxes or smuggling embezzled money out of your country.

Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by monkeynotes »

mandmandam wrote: post #9
wongarsu wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it was one of the channel’s headline commissions for its new regional television news show We Are England. This new show replaced the long-running Inside Out regional current affairs series, which was cancelled as part of BBC funding cuts in a decision that resulted in many investigative journalists based outside London losing their jobs. > Continuing cuts to BBC budgets and deep job cuts, caused by successive lice…

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I am not sure what this comment is meant to convey, but it sounds to me that you are alluding to BoJo gutting the BBC for his own political gain.

I think the reality is the license fee is overwhelmingly unpopular, has been for decades. The BBC has not evolved its business model to keep up with democratized broadcast and if BoJo is the one to do what is inevitable then who can blame him to use the opportunity to be the one to pull the trigger.

The license fee is unfair, unsustainable, and in my opinion unenforceable given today's technology. It used to be that having a "TV" meant you implicitly watched the BBC. As the decades passed cable and satellite became popular and so people could own a TV and never watch the BBC, but the BBC would still insist you were watching their service and send inspectors to your house.

They would threaten you (I've experienced this myself) and ask to come into your home as if they had the authority, which they did not. So many people let these assholes into their homes to "inspect" their viewing habits and issue a fine if they found a TV in your home, because obviously if you have a TV you MUST be watching the BBC. What's even more crazy is you get a discount for a B&W TV, that's just how stuck in the past this license thing is.

Today you can legit have multiple TVs (now displays) and never watch the BBC. But the BBC thinks that because you have an internet connection you must be watching the BBC.

It's just nuts, and as I said, unenforceable. So it must end. The BBC has had the opportunity to adapt over the last ~30 years as the internet and other entertainment sources came into people's homes, but they chose not to. I say let the BBC fade away or adapt on their own feet.

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Post by j4yav »

thrwyoilarticle wrote: post #42
ben_w wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I generally agree with your sentiment, some of the most iconic art in the world seems to me to be poorly made and I have no idea why they are valued or admired. I don’t just mean the usual go-to controversial examples in modern art like Serrano’s “Piss Christ”[0] or Emin’s “My Bed”[1], as even some older stuff like Klimt’s “Der Kuss”[2] give me this confusion (the woman has always looked to me like she has a br…

Someone put something in piss 35 years ago and you're still talking about it now instead of whatever form of art you think is superior. Sounds iconic.

It is iconic as a sort of meme, people always mention it when they want to say that they don't like any art produced in the last few hundred years.

Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by Angostura »

> This new show replaced the long-running Inside Out regional current affairs series, which was cancelled as part of BBC funding cuts in a decision that resulted in many investigative journalists based outside London losing their jobs.

>Continuing cuts to BBC budgets and deep job cuts, caused by successive licence fee freezes, have been blamed for recent errors in the corporation’s news output, especially in regional English newsrooms.

Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by alisonkisk »

loceng wrote: post #16
WilTimSon wrote: post #2

It's astonishing to me that people will just buy into any success story that involves crypto and NFTs. People don't question why poorly drawn pictures are being bought for thousands of dollars, don't question why there are hundreds of altcoins on the market and some "cryptocurrency experts" are supposedly "offering free tips" on investment. The whole space is rife with scams and embellishments and yet there are so ma…

It could also have been more of a "hit piece" by the BBC on crypto/NFTs, and perhaps the controllers are financially incentivized/aligned with Bitcoin et al's success - so they pulled it? A possibility exists in the direction opposite to what you suggest.

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Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by fnord123 »

nsomaru wrote: post #39
captaincaveman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your not buying the rights, that's the most annoying thing about NFTs, that people don't get.

I looked this up the other day and I might be wrong but it seems like in most jurisdictions even if you buy a meatspace piece of art you do not own the actual copyright on the work. While I’m not a fan of NFTs this does somewhat weaken the proposition that any “rights” cannot be sold with NFTs because IIRC this is the status quo in meatspace art purchases too.

There are no rights to Bored Ape works. They are algorithmically generated so they are public domain.

Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by notahacker »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #45
cuteboy19 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The scarcity of houses is real and physical. The scarcity of NFTs is artificial, completely made up.

> The scarcity of houses is real and physical Not really in a lot of cities, most scarcity is based on government regulations (=not allowing more of them to be built, or not allowed to build larger ones). There are a few locations where there is no actual usable space to build more, but mostly, that is not an issue.

The scarcity of land is physical. And to supply more housing you need to pay for the ownership of physical assets, and then for people to physically demolish them and physically build bigger structures, which is a lot of expensive to take if the demand for property doesn't already exceed its supply

Or you could create more "limited edition" monkey pictures at essentially zero marginal cost.

Re: BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

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Post by rvz »

Pete-Codes wrote: post #15

The BBC relentless drop in standards continues then.

It has fell from standards years ago.

It turns out it wasn't the first time they have questioned or even sourced their own reports with suspicion and skepticism. [0]. They just follow the hype and report the same content that every other mainstream media does.

They are supposed to be exposing and investigating these scammers, not praising them.

[0] https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/1491362600483180547

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