> But there is so much more that can be done with NFTs. For some thing, ownership actually gives you an advantage. I have an unwritten blog post about what "ow

> But there is so much more that can be done with NFTs. For some thing, ownership actually gives you an advantage. I have an unwritten blog post about what "ownership" means in the digital realm, but the gist is that ownership is control. This is complicated by laws imposing meatspace-minded artificial scarcity, mainly by forbidding the duplication and/or reverse-engineering of certain bytes on your own hard drive (programs which have restrictive licenses). So NFTs have nothing at all to do with ownership because they don't touch those dynamics (at least not in a way meaningful to the end user). Even an NFT that granted you certain privileges would have those privileges enforced by some external system, so you're again only borrowing the authority from someone else so it's really they who own it and you're only buying a license to use it. Open source software, on the other hand, is about ownership because the license is granted to users to assume full control of what they possess with no third-party arbitration.