should you pirate an image or an nft (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] dirtypirate@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

pirate all of them

https://thenftbay.org/billion-dollar-nft-torrent.torrent

[-] ttt3ts@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Spoiler: NFTs are fake.

[-] midnightlightning@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years 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).