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Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by maest on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:44AM (#27303756)
> an NFT is an abstract handle to which various rights can optionally be attached.

What I find confusing is the following:

Rights are meaningless without enforcement (in the real world). Who is going to enforce NFTs? There's no government or other authority standing behind this tech.

Compare NFTs with patents/digital rights - in both cases I "own" the artwork in some sense, but digital rights/patents, there are entire mechanisms that ensure these rights can be enforced.

With NFT, I can just ignore them without any issue.

My question is: how are NFT rights enforced?

Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by detaro on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:08AM (#27304023)
You make a license that ties rights to the NFT, and use the legal system. E.g. a license that says "whoever holds this NFT gets the right to display the artwork it's for", if you want to sort-of match the sale of a traditional artwork.
Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by LegitShady on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:21AM (#27304179)
In other words, its a digital certificate of ownership/rights that has no enforcement mechanism and still requires a contract, a lawyer, a court, and a society that enforces rights laws to run.

NFTs are actually speculation scams being run on the uninformed using buzzwords like blockchain and crypto while themselves being worthless. A digital certificate of authenticity for an infinitely reproducible good which still requires major cost and legal intervention to enforce.

A highly corrupt speculation scam using buzzwords about blockchain.

Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by lvturner on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:00AM (#27314331)
But which legal system?

I’m almost tempted to setup-shop ‘stealing’ NFTs and displaying them in a gallery, I imagine if I set everything up off shore to the US that I will risk pretty little

Anyone does DMCA etc even apply here? Even if it does, I can just host in a country that ignores it…

Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by detaro on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:32AM (#27316596)
Just as you can with anything else copyrighted. Why would that be any different? NFTs just are a different way of tracking who has them, noting more.
Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by D13Fd on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:17AM (#27304134)
Luckily there is nothing to enforce absent parties contractually tying rights to NFT holders. And at that point you just have a contract, enforced by the courts.
Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by rchaud on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:33PM (#27306445)
> My question is: how are NFT rights enforced?

Charlie and his older brother will work in the new compliance department where they search Youtube and Dailymotion every day and flag CBMF duplicate uploads.