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[–] [email protected] 158 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are they trying to say that NFTs are some kind of bullshit scam that should have dissolved into the ether like the crypto bro's cocaine-fueled manic state that spawned them in the first place? How shocking and unpredictable.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you mean? You didnt go out and spend all your money on reproducable jpegs? Whats wrong with you?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

reproducable jpegs? Excuse me?

I live walking distance from my local police department. If another person uses my NFT without my consent I will report them immediately. This is MY PROPERTY. The transaction has be verified scientifically on the block chain. Anyone who violates my NFT rights will pay the price.

Buddy, you have no idea who you are messing with. I have made a ridiculous amount of money in crypto/NFTs and I have the best lawyers. If you don’t delete those stolen jpegs, you’re going to regret it. When you steal someone’s property you get punished. Watch out.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Sorry to disappoint ya, but the thing that gets stored on the blockchain isn't the image itself but usually just a link to the image, sometimes with a hash of the image.

You're not storing the image itself on the blockchain, meaning if the link goes down your NFT is useless.

Additionally, you cannot report someone for using your NFT unless you get a registered copyright for it, and the use of your NFT must not fall under fair use. Considering that there's so many different variants of the same NFT in most cases, it'd be barely possible to register a copyright as you'd immediately strike all the other variants AND there is a chance the distributor already has copyright on the work.

(ofc, I'm not a lawyer, check local legislation.)

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do love how genuine you are when replying to this shitpost

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Bless his kind soul. He doesn't deserve the downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I will take any and all chances to shit on NFTs, no matter how many reply with "whoosh"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

LOL no kidding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can't file for copyright registration for something you didn't create unless the creator explicitly signed over copyright ownership rights to you (and most NFTs do not)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Stares in Poe's Law.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mortgaged my house for a computer-generated ape that my son's cousin's uncle's neighbor's mailman said would one day finance my retirement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It will, it will. Any day now, you’ll see! My kid told me the same thing, and his favorite streamer wouldn’t just say anything for money, would he?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I spent all my money on a chance to get a certain jpg.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

So the guy on Reddit who told me I better get with the NFT game or be left behind in a year was full of shit?