Owning an NFT is analogous to owning a receipt. You don’t actually own the image and paying for one means you fell for a scam. Pointing that out is enough to piss off any NFT owners.
Don’t worry, you are in a technical place here on Lemmy and we where all shocked how many fell for that bs, feel free to rant cuz you won’t find many crypto bros here! ;)
I actually like the idea of using them as nothing more than fancy receipts. They could be used to disintermediate creators and fans, with the right platform and technology combo.
I agree. An idea that I liked was that NFTs can be used to transfer items from one game to the next. Like a rare gun in COD can be transferred into Skyrim where it is a rare armor or something.
Technically NFT, a token is linked/owned by a wallet address. Which you cannot pirate/dublicate.
But in case of nft images, those tokens are linked to an image on ipfs through dapps, which you can download. But there is legal uncertainty about these images.
The NFT is not an image. The NFT is the token on the block chain. You can copy an image all you want, but thats not pirating an NFT. NFTs are inherently unpirateable.
Uh I mean where is the hassle in right clicking an image and hitting save? NFTs associated with images are just trash data people think are valuable because??? Someone told them so???
There is no such thing as pirating an nft because the data is public. It’s freely available to download to everyone. What is valued by the market is the actual token associated with that data, which you cannot reproduce
That torrent is an “art piece” the creator made to raise awareness of NFTs. This video shows an interview with the artist who created that project: youtu.be/i_VsgT5gfMc
The first half of the video (and the overall reason for creating that torrent) is exaggerated and over-generalizes what NFTs are in order to claim “a problem” with them, but the second half does have a good discussion about the technology itself (educating users that scams exist in any technology, and because it’s new and different, there’s less guardrails to help users avoid scams automatically, so you need to be vigilant yourself).
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