Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k

Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by basch on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:59PM (#27280879)

At the end of the day doesnt the trust still fall back to the author? If you are getting 1/1 of a digital autograph or something, you are trusting the author to later not make more autographs.

Even if the institutions that authenticate the autographs go away, their record of the work they did so far is printed into the permanent record, no?

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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by rsj_hn on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:01PM (#27280931)

Or really trusting anyone who downloaded it and reposted it, etc. This is not about scarcity but about a certificate of authenticity that you can show around. The actual good is worthless, the certificate is what is hard to forge.

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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by basch on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:06PM (#27281006)

Correct, downloading and reposting the photo isnt the same thing, and not really a part of the conversation. Youre buying the print number, not the work.

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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by mattigames on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @05:10PM (#27282712)

You are buying the print number in a specific blockchain, tomorrow anyone can create a few thousand blockchains from scratch where this print number doesn't exist; just like one has to believe a currency has value to assume any value on one of its coins/tokens.

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