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NFTs are not a container in which a stolen artwork can be placed. This current trend of art NFTs are roughly an HTML <img> tag that only one person can own but
by politician 5y ago
NFTs are not a container in which a stolen artwork can be placed. This current trend of art NFTs are roughly an HTML <img> tag that only one person can own but anyone can read. When the image source url is loaded it resolves to some image.
TLDR: Links are being sold, not art. Not stolen art. You can't steal art and put it into an NFT because NFTs don't carry image data (as currently defined in ERC-721).
- BoysenberryPi 5y agoYou're playing with semantics. Someone is selling ownership to something they do not own.
- politician 5y agoI am certainly not playing with semantics. I think you may be very confused about what an NFT is. You may be familiar with JSON. Can you imagine a JSON document with a URL attribute? Now can you imagine selling that JSON document to someone else? That's an NFT (sans some crypto that makes duplicating that document impossible). You may be familiar with HTML. Imagine selling a hyperlink to someone else. Literally the string '<a href="...">' tag. That's an NFT (sans some crypto that makes duplicating that string impossible). Nothing is being sold other than the ownership of one unique JSON document or one unique HTML string. If people want to believe that a picture of the Empire State building makes them the new owners of the Empire State building, I don't know what to say.