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You can't buy a fucking gif! This fiction spread way too easily. All you're buying a token that mentions the gif. This gif itself lives on as if nothing had hap
by Y_Y 5y ago
You can't buy a fucking gif! This fiction spread way too easily. All you're buying a token that mentions the gif. This gif itself lives on as if nothing had happened, just like if you bought a star.
- kazinator 5y agoBut in that particular token-buying ecosystem, nobody else can buy that gif. Unless they change a pixel value, or some bit of metadata. Suppose you actually approached the author of the gif, and bought the exclusive copyright to it, conventionally. The gif itself is still not affected any more by that transaction than of the non-fungible token purchase. Exact copies of it exist all over the place, shared by people who don't care about your copyright.
- WalterSear 5y agoAlso in that particular token-buying ecosystem, you can sell yourself the token representation of that gif multiple times, in order to fool people into thinking that there is a genuine market for the token corresponding to that gif.
- karmakaze 5y agoUnless you buy that exact gif on a different blockchain.