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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by adflux on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:24PM (#27284086)
For most NFTs you are essentially buying a record which links to an url on a platform. The video is not encoded in the nft
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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by atleta on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:08PM (#27284488)
Well, I guess you could include some kind of hash/checksum too. That could prove your 'ownership' without any platform whatsoever. (It doesn't make it more meaningful, but at least decreases the dependency on whoever owns the platform hosting the link.)
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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:01PM (#27284443)
Exactly, and the URL could 404 tomorrow or redirect to goatse or download malware ...
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