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You can copy the Mona Lisa, but the original remains the original forever. The paint strokes can never be replicated fully.
Not quite true of digital files. Copies and âoriginalsâ are indistinguishable. Anyway, what you call original is a copy itself, since the original is lost to your volatile RAM whenever you closed your drawing program. When you hit âsave asâ, it copies data from memory to non-volatile storage, so even that âoriginalâ file is a copy. A bit for bit identical copy, but a copy nonetheless.
Thatâs just how computers work. Thatâs why NFTs are a total scam.
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Early after the launch of the iPhone there was an app called âI am Richâ and all it did when you ran it is display a screen with âI am Richâ on it. It cost $5000 and Apple pulled it from the store rather quickly.
NFTâs are like limited edditon I am Rich apps.
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The original is gambling, right?
NFTs kinda depend on your level of cynicism. Letâs say, I make some art and itâs good. The NFT is like my certificate of ownership of that art.
If I put it on the internet, someone can download a copy and use it, but I still own it. If they tried to post it themselves and I said to take it down, theyâd have to do so. Itâs kinda like a trade mark in that regard, but because it relies on black chain, I can transfer ownership if I wanted to to someone else, and that transaction is not subject to a central authority the way trademarks are.
Itâs the same kinda idea as bitcoin and other crypto currencies, they exist outside of the realm of central authority. Everyone plays by the same rules. NFT art is like babies first use case for this kinda tech.
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Itâs funny to me that a lot of people are investing in crypto now because the US Dollar is so devalued, but all of that crypto value is pinned to the dollar.
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Itâs funny to me how cows like bugle music but all those bugles are really into astrology.
No, since buying an NFT doesnât give you the copyrights to it. As the owner of a digital copy, youâre not the copyright holder and thus cannot issue take down notices.
Nope, not at all. No rights to the art are transferred in an NFT purchase. Your sole ownership is that certificate of âauthenticityâ that you own a copy of the work.
Itâs like being a digital movie, but that digital movie has a public link to download it basically. You donât own the rights to the movie. You just own a copy you can watch.
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What do you mean you donât invest in fly-by-night ponzi schemes that let people slap-fight over animated gifs and fugly monkey pictures that is basically the idiotâs version of rich people using art for money laundering then wonder how these basement dwelling weirdos who seem to not have a job be able to afford 10k dollars for one of these?
an NFT is a receipt that says that the issuer of the receipt says you own the receipt. thatâs it.
Everyday scamming looks more and more like a legit career pathway.
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âSoonâ have these people never played csgo or tf2?
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A NFT is a non-fungible token, which is fancy speak for its a digital image that you technically own. Given the original version of the image has a unique link to it that cannot be copied, or something to that effect. Yet due to it being digital and found on the internet. Means nothing in reality as anyone can simple copy the image or GIF that someone paid a stupid amount of money for.
Really its an entire scam that has gained traction that I imagine will either become heavily regulated, or made illegal. Given it plays of the whole art community in that when an artist makes an original piece of art. It cannot be copied, at least not easily, and there is literally only one of it in physical existence. Which means a true value can be tied to it, compared to a digital version. That in all practicality doesnât, can be copied and manipulated far easier than a physical piece of art can be. That idiots have bought into due to people trading NFTâs amongst each other to inflate and hype up the prices. To get idiots to buy into the scheme and literally spend millions on a useless image.
With the final point being had its simply so easy to just simply scam someone with the NFT. Unless you have some way to check that the NFT is legit, people can literally just copy any image. Claim they made it and sell it for tons of money, or pull the rug out by taking the money and running. Give another aspect is there is no physical interaction of trading to be had, with it also being harder I believe to prove you were scammed. If you but an NFT and the sale goes bunk.
The only legit NFTâs are things like the TCG mounts, and even those are tied to physical cards that have a code on them. That you use to claim the mount in game and ties it to a specific WoW account that cannot be duplicated. NFTâs in a pure digital format are pure scams given there is nothing physical tied to the NFT. Which is crucial, at least you would think it would be, when it comes to buying ANYTHING for hundreds to millions of dollars.
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South Park mentioned something about NFTâs and lol, it was funny.
Remember when gaming was just about playing solo or co-op games with the occasional online playability to mix things up?
If this is progress, count me out.
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UEG did a pretty good summary on the question regarding Ubisoftâs recent mess, which also has the points you make about the utter backwardness of using NFTs on a centralized game service:
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NFTâs in games is just greed and idiocy incarnate smashed into one neat environmentally expensive package. Needs to never become a main stream thing. Ever. EVER.
Thereâs other ways to beat the wealth gap, playin video games for income might be a thing of the future but thatâs not here yet, socially not ready for it. When the ruling working class is entirely AI and energy costs are negated by solid non-environmentally damaging energy production⌠then weâll be ready for this sort of stuff⌠kinda.
Too soon, and deffinitely seeing NFTâs come up into gaming for the wrong reasons.
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Right clicks and hits âsave imageâ
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In many ways it is. If you copy an NFT without permission to do so, youâre guilty of piracy.
But you are correct in that the value of NFTs is purely based on speculation. Basically, like diamonds or trading cards or paintings, it only has value if people believe it does.
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Yep. could not care less what people do with their money.
I do care this is how DLC became the crap storm of doom in in gaming.
Long ago, galaxy far far awayâŚracing games came all cars in the game. Day 1. want the carâŚdo the unlock.
Fast forward to 2021âŚ50%, if that, of cars in game. DLC/buy the rest.
Well that and people need to realize this in time will have devs keeping up NFT integrity than fixing real problems in games.
Oh it got exploited. Oh crap we bugged it in a patch. must fix this now. andâŚother crap more vital must wait.
What I think hurt fo76 the first year a lot. Major bugs lived longer as dev team was going dammitâŚwe still donât know how players are getting into qa smoke room. not sure why it was there to begin with. But to keep game intergrity this killed bug hunts of more import as I see it.
side not I know why it was there. they copy pastaâd heavily fallout 4 source. and some bright people copy pastaâd the debug âcheat roomâ from it lol. in an mmo type game.
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