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Re: NFT the DP

#11

Post by Qworg »

capableweb wrote: post #7
daleharvey wrote: post #5

This is fairly gross, pretending to be socially concious when if the technical claims were true it would be a horrific potential for abuse (revenge porn etc). NFT's have nothing to do with ownership, if someone puts up your data illegally or even just breaking copyright, get the police / a lawyer involved and they will take it down, luckily NFTs are heavily centralised so it wont be difficult.

> luckily NFTs are heavily centralised so it wont be difficult Interestingly enough, most NFT would disagree with you as long as they are backed by content-addressable systems. What do you mean with that "NFTs are heavily centralized"? The metadata itself is stored on Ethereum or similar while the actual bytes of the media is stored in IPFS. How is that centralized?

Who is pinning it?

https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19

Re: NFT the DP

#12

Post by tripu »

capableweb wrote: post #6
tripu wrote: post #2

This is bad. Two wrongs don't make a right. Not to minimise the seriousness of cyber-flashing, but sharing with the world intimate/sensitive data/media without the consent of the other party is reprehensible (too). I don't think that “but what they did was 10× worse!” makes this site defensible. I surely hope there are better strategies to deal with unsolicited naked pics.

Hm, I'm not sure you miss the point of the website. It says: "If you feel the urge to send a no-context jpeg of your junk, we’ll give it the audience you clearly think it deserves", so this website is for the people who want to share their intimate junk to the whole world, not for others to share other peoples intimate junk (which I'm pretty sure is illegal in most places)

That's way too charitable a reading. See context (Twitter, coverage): it's clearly intended as a tool for victims of cyber-flashing, to be used _without_ the consent of the person sending the photo(s).

Re: NFT the DP

#13

Post by tfang17 »

NFTs are following the same trend as 2017 ICOs. Bubble is going to pop at some point. The survivors will be the projects with real long-term value.

Re: NFT the DP

#14

Post by mekkkkkk »

beaner wrote: post #3

It's funny till you realize the same thing can be done to people who aren't weirdos too, like for revenge porn and hacked nudes.

Yeah, the whole idea of holding data "reverse-ransomed" (pay to have it removed) is a bit unpalatable. Can't see any wholesome uses for it.

Re: NFT the DP

#15

Post by gruez »

tfang17 wrote: post #13

NFTs are following the same trend as 2017 ICOs. Bubble is going to pop at some point. The survivors will be the projects with real long-term value.

what's the "real long-term value" of a NFT? At least with ICOs you can say that the tokens could be used for something.

Re: NFT the DP

#17

Post by motohagiography »

Blackmail as a service. Well done, internet. But you're 25+ years behind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

Not completely sure what the impact of revenge porn is, but I would posit it could reduce your chances of having and raising a kid in a two parent household. Making lists like this have as bad an impact on society than they do on the individuals involved. It's difficult to articulate what someone could reasonably see as the proportionate response to this would be, but it doesn't seem to have a top. I'd recommend to the authors to think these things through, but really, they should just try to be better people.

Re: NFT the DP

#18

Post by boredumb »

Repulsive and vindictive people masquerading as socially righteous? Glad this hasn't been mainstreamed into an acceptable personality type in the last decade!

Re: NFT the DP

#19

Post by [deleted] »

Qworg wrote: post #11
capableweb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> luckily NFTs are heavily centralised so it wont be difficult Interestingly enough, most NFT would disagree with you as long as they are backed by content-addressable systems. What do you mean with that "NFTs are heavily centralized"? The metadata itself is stored on Ethereum or similar while the actual bytes of the media is stored in IPFS. How is that centralized?

Who is pinning it? https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19

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Re: NFT the DP

#20

Post by gruez »

Qworg wrote: post #11
capableweb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> luckily NFTs are heavily centralised so it wont be difficult Interestingly enough, most NFT would disagree with you as long as they are backed by content-addressable systems. What do you mean with that "NFTs are heavily centralized"? The metadata itself is stored on Ethereum or similar while the actual bytes of the media is stored in IPFS. How is that centralized?

Who is pinning it? https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19

Some digging shows that tweet is totally misinformed. He seems to think that because niftygateway's json response returns an internet-facing url, that the underlying NFT must also be referencing an internet-facing url (as opposed to an IPFS url/hash). This is incorrect. The URL he's seeing in the API response is simply a IPFS proxy service offered by the NFT website. If you extract the identifier of the NFT from the url he linked[1] and plug it to etherscan[2], then scroll down to "trumpVictoryIPFSHash", you can see that the NFT is actually referencing the IPFS hash directly, and not the internet facing url. You can confirm this by plugging that value into an IFPS gateway[3]

[1] https://niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0x12f28e2106ce8f...

[2] https://etherscan.io/address/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea86...

[3] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTu6rr8o8CwbWDf2AbP13gdLFQKbqk1xaHZhFm...

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