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probably a stupid question but is it worth the hassle just for a webp image unless it is to piss of a company or a person then i see a reason why

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[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Owning an NFT is analogous to owning a receipt. You don't actually own the image and paying for one means you fell for a scam. Pointing that out is enough to piss off any NFT owners.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

I actually like the idea of using them as nothing more than fancy receipts. They could be used to disintermediate creators and fans, with the right platform and technology combo.

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I agree. An idea that I liked was that NFTs can be used to transfer items from one game to the next. Like a rare gun in COD can be transferred into Skyrim where it is a rare armor or something.

[-] Gamey@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Don't worry, you are in a technical place here on Lemmy and we where all shocked how many fell for that bs, feel free to rant cuz you won't find many crypto bros here! ;)

[-] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

Apparently many people are banking on a rebound.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 36 points 11 months ago

There is no such thing as pirating an nft because the data is public. It's freely available to download to everyone. What is valued by the market is the actual token associated with that data, which you cannot reproduce

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago

By pirating an NFT you mean saving the image? Because the owner of an NFT doesn't always own the copyright or license.

[-] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why would you pirate something with no intrinsic value? It'd be like stealing seawater. Piracy requires booty, NFTs have none.

[-] lemming007@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Don't insult seawater, it definitely has more value than NFT

[-] small44@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is it even worth it to pirate NFTs, all the nft I saw has poor artistic value

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And to be even more worthless, the NFTs aren’t even the image.

[-] Terramaris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

The NFT is not an image. The NFT is the token on the block chain. You can copy an image all you want, but thats not pirating an NFT. NFTs are inherently unpirateable.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

For what purpose? If you like it for a wallpaper out whatever... Sure?

[-] idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

Technically NFT, a token is linked/owned by a wallet address. Which you cannot pirate/dublicate.

But in case of nft images, those tokens are linked to an image on ipfs through dapps, which you can download. But there is legal uncertainty about these images.

[-] dirtypirate@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago
[-] ttt3ts@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pretty sure this is fake. I tried to get them when this was released. It is garbage.

[-] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Spoiler: NFTs are fake.

[-] midnightlightning@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

That torrent is an "art piece" the creator made to raise awareness of NFTs. This video shows an interview with the artist who created that project: https://youtu.be/i_VsgT5gfMc

The first half of the video (and the overall reason for creating that torrent) is exaggerated and over-generalizes what NFTs are in order to claim "a problem" with them, but the second half does have a good discussion about the technology itself (educating users that scams exist in any technology, and because it's new and different, there's less guardrails to help users avoid scams automatically, so you need to be vigilant yourself).

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[-] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 5 points 11 months ago

should you pirate ~~an image or an nft~~

Pirate everything possible.

[-] OurMoneyIsBroken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Kek Nfts lol 💩

Nobody even wants the real ones 😂

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 4 points 11 months ago
[-] midnightlightning@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To "pirate" a digital item is to get access to something you're not supposed to (e.g. software you're only supposed to have if you buy a license to it). Downloading the image of an NFT is just fine as it's public content. If you then claim that image is your creation (claim to be the artist) or profit of it (commercial use) that's more drastic. For many NFTs the graphic attached to them isn't the valuable part of the asset (e.g. the access it grants, or the voting power it authorizes, or how it interacts with a digital game/space is the key thing that only the owner can do); you having a copy of the thumbnail image doesn't change the abilities the owner has (and therefore the value of the actual token).

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Pirate anything you want, IP doesn't exist, so you can't steal it. You can't be guilty of poaching unicorns.

[-] ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

WebP? Don't even bother. JPEG XL, on the other hand, is legendary.

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

For what purpose and what do you mean exactly

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i see it as a philosophical question really: is a digital copy equal to the original? I postulate that it isnt - a copy is a different object, it resides on a different computer, and occupies space on that computer's storage media.

so, if you're making a copy, it's not really "piracy" because the copy you made isnt the original. the original has value (imagined or otherwise)

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

But the "original" isn't an original either. They are both just computer files. Strings of bytes that a program knows how to interpret. If you think there's any special value to the specific instance of that string of bytes on your hard drive, then sorry to say but it gets destroyed every time you defrag your hard drive (because it is not that exact sequence of bytes anymore, it's a copy in a different sector of the drive)

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