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> A print of the Mona Lisa wasn't painted by Leonardo da Vinci. It's a completely different painting. Are you saying that if we were able to do an atom by atom

> A print of the Mona Lisa wasn't painted by Leonardo da Vinci. It's a completely different painting. Are you saying that if we were able to do an atom by atom copy of Mona Lisa (by a Replicator from Star Wars) then nobody would be interested in seeing the actual painting where the hands of Leornado da Vinci touched the canvas himself, which 'object' has millions of people have laid their eyes on? How about an even simpler example, you can deploy the open source copy of wikipedia on your own domain name 'wikipaydiya.com' (or any domain), populate it with the database dump which wikipedia provides, and connect it with a script which will update the database in real time from wikipedia itself (So all updates on wikipedia by people will be reflected on this clone website. Do you think now this 'clone wikipedia' has the same value in the market as wikipedia.org because its a complete copy? Maybe the value of Mona Lisa comes from the fact that far more people are willing to see it than an atom level copy of it?

bagpuss 6y ago
> replicator from Star Wars "juice; jabba, chilled"
remram 6y ago
Turn that on its head, would you be unwilling to buy the Mona Lisa after it has been teleported once (by a transporter from Star Trek)? We're both pretty far out from reality though, but they are similar arguments. As for your wikipedia point, I don't get it. The domain name 'wikipedia.org' has value, and not owning the domain does not get you the value of the domain. Obviously.
- splintercell 6y ago
  > As for your wikipedia point, I don't get it. The domain name 'wikipedia.org' has value, and not owning the domain does not get you the value of the domain. Obviously. That's the point, the domain Wikipedia has value, and that value is nontransferable even if someone else copies and puts the whole data somewhere else, because its the traffic which comes to it. Similarly, if a museum in Atlanta purchases Mona Lisa, they know that they will get the traffic coming for Mona Lisa at Louvre, to this museum in Georgia. This means sale of tickets, and other revenue. SO the price of real Mona Lisa carries that value appreciation with it. Now I can answer this question: > Turn that on its head, would you be unwilling to buy the Mona Lisa after it has been teleported once (by a transporter from Star Trek)? It would depend, would people be willing to pay to see that Mona Lisa? If yes then the answer to your question is similar. Finally, the most important thing most people don't understand. With the NFT (in almost all the cases) people are purchasing the licensing rights of an object too. Buy the NFT [1] of Andrew Jones' "Dharma Dragon"[2] and get the licensing rights to all prints, and other usage of the image. 1. https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/dharma-dragon-14834 https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/dharma-dragon-14834 2. https://androidjones-obtain.com/products/dharma-dragon https://androidjones-obtain.com/products/dharma-dragon

bagpuss 6y ago

> replicator from Star Wars "juice; jabba, chilled"

remram 6y ago

Turn that on its head, would you be unwilling to buy the Mona Lisa after it has been teleported once (by a transporter from Star Trek)? We're both pretty far out from reality though, but they are similar arguments. As for your wikipedia point, I don't get it. The domain name 'wikipedia.org' has value, and not owning the domain does not get you the value of the domain. Obviously.

splintercell 6y ago
> As for your wikipedia point, I don't get it. The domain name 'wikipedia.org' has value, and not owning the domain does not get you the value of the domain. Obviously. That's the point, the domain Wikipedia has value, and that value is nontransferable even if someone else copies and puts the whole data somewhere else, because its the traffic which comes to it. Similarly, if a museum in Atlanta purchases Mona Lisa, they know that they will get the traffic coming for Mona Lisa at Louvre, to this museum in Georgia. This means sale of tickets, and other revenue. SO the price of real Mona Lisa carries that value appreciation with it. Now I can answer this question: > Turn that on its head, would you be unwilling to buy the Mona Lisa after it has been teleported once (by a transporter from Star Trek)? It would depend, would people be willing to pay to see that Mona Lisa? If yes then the answer to your question is similar. Finally, the most important thing most people don't understand. With the NFT (in almost all the cases) people are purchasing the licensing rights of an object too. Buy the NFT [1] of Andrew Jones' "Dharma Dragon"[2] and get the licensing rights to all prints, and other usage of the image. 1. https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/dharma-dragon-14834 https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/dharma-dragon-14834 2. https://androidjones-obtain.com/products/dharma-dragon https://androidjones-obtain.com/products/dharma-dragon