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Penny Arcade - Comic - Gate Detection
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Gate Detection
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I recognized what it's based on, but I would've found it pretty hilarious if they'd copypasted an actual NFT monkey into the strip, because that sort of thing drives crypto bros absolutely livid.
token (the T in NFT) that just SAYS he owns an image, when actual ownership and control of that image is not possible.
The irony being that it doesn't define pop culture except in the way that bad news does. They're not really produced by artists(you know, the ones responsible for pop culture) but machines that mix and match parts to mass-produce objects.
I've never heard it used that narrowly. Generally it's just a tendency for folks not to like newcomers in a hobby and to put up artificial barriers to them. Which, if those newcomers are bitcoin bros, might be a good thing. That's the joke.
It also doesn't define identity, because they are virtually indistinguishable from the literally thousands of others in the collection.
First example that comes to mind is whether mobile gamers are gamers
That's because it's the International Business Times
I don't think business periodicals have ever properly had their finger on the definition of what normal things actually look like, and I say that as a Business grad.
Sure Chad Knight, Sure.
Now that you mention it, avatars and screen names seem like they might be one of the few actual use cases for something like NFTs. Think stuff like Gravatars. Like this username anywhere is probably me. That's not so much because I paid a stupid amount of money to claim ownership, but because I made it relatively early in the life of the internet and it's not based on a pop culture thing, and awkward enough that no one actually wants it.
Something where the uniqueness of the Token in NFT and ownership of the Token links it to you might be useful in the context where's you want to say this account is Me. But all the stuff with procedurally generated monkeys or ugly pixel people, and people claiming they're some kind of amazing investment vehicle right before some runs off with a couple of million dollars and then they jump right back into the next pyramid scam shows that currently it's all nonsense burning electricity for no damn reason.
I'd caution against this line of reasoning. Not possible currently, not, but it could absolutely become possible to control ownership of images if there's enough willingness to make it happen. The book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig makes this case - never assume that freedom or openness is inherent to any system, it can always be taken away.
But sharing a picture on the internet you don't own has always been illegal. Copyright holders have failed time and time again to enforce their rights here. It's like fighting against people sharing books. Even if they somehow managed to force everyone to use a DRM that looks at the files on your computer and deletes automatically every copy of a picture you don't own, the analog hole is still a thing.
Yeah I don't get what was hard to understand here. Its like the absolute "we should tolerate all behaviors!" When that's not true at all. Sometimes you should gate keep bad actors.
pleasepaypreacher.net
I'm not sure I get that. The actual image isn't in any way unique. It's copyrighted by the author, but the NFT ownership is basically a fancy piece of paper that says you own it. The image isn't the actual NFT. An unscrupulous author could sell a dozen NFTs for the same image, even.
But the thing is that none of that requires anything like NFTs. We already have plenty of (some would say too many) authentication systems. Any of those systems that are supposed to be honoring an NFT could just instead honor this 3rd party authenticator. The main problem is just getting every single place on board with the same system, not building the system itself.
You know that, and I know that, but the people who buy NFTs apparently often don't.
Someone who doesn't own them? Copyright law, mainly. But you could take a public domain image and make an NFT for it. You'd just have to be careful in your wording to not imply any rights over the image, or you could run afoul of laws regarding fraud.
But if you did all that, the only thing left stopping you is human decency. In other words, not much.
One of these things is not like the other.
Hey now, that's being cynical. I also genuinely don't know where to find the suckers to buy the things, so decency and that
No this is what people do
So far I have not caved on the crypto. Quick, everyone tell me why this is wise and why I should continue to be strong!
-Tycho Brahe
The last thing humanity needs is new ways to make cash by burning the environment down. You are doing the right thing for any younger generations of your family by withholding. Between the absurd electricity consumption when blockchains are operated at scale, and the considerable increase in e-waste which is toxic and not easily disposed of, anything to do with cryptocurrency or NFTs is very bad for the climate.
It's not going to be widely adopted as a currency as long as its value keeps bouncing here and there and everywhere.
This article claims crypto can't really be used an actual currency at all because of it's lack of regulation and deflationary nature:
Except for the ones who get mad and start asking the NFT sellers for a way to prevent people from saving their images, lol.
That's not a pro-bitcoin argument.
You don't even need to steal content. As far as I know, there's nothing stopping you from just selling NFTs for random IDs on image hosting sites.
Fraud, basically. If you stand in front of someone's car with a sign that says "for sale" with a picture of that car on it, and you take money for that car, you're implying that you are authorized to transfer ownership of that car. Even if you try to be cute and say "but I never said I was selling the car, just the picture of the car!"
Judges don't appreciate "cute".
Never stopped crypto people before. :P
Snarky comment that I don't disagree with, but not really apropos. The OP said there's nothing stopping people from selling NFTs from random images. And sure, there's technically nothing "stopping" you in the same way there's technically nothing "stopping" you from calling up someone and claiming you're from their "cardholder services" and need their credit card information so you can buy a bunch of stuff with it. Scammers gonna scam.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/20/22334527/nft-scams-artists-opensea-rarible-marble-cards-fraud-art
But since saying there's nothing "stopping" someone from committing a crime is a bit of a tautology, I have to assume the OP meant that it's not illegal. But it is.