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Re:NFTs are the new Beanie Babies by gruez on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:05PM (#28866938)
The same thing that prevents you from minting another deed that says you own the same piece of land as someone else.
Re:NFTs are the new Beanie Babies by hammyhavoc on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:04PM (#28869281)
Not true. Someone could take an image that I've created, stick it on a server, create an NFT with a URL pointing at it, then sell it. Likewise, others, including me, could then create an NFT with a URL that points at that piece of data. The original creator (me in this situation) wouldn't have created the 'original' NFT.

NFTs don't solve counterfeiting when anybody can create a 'counterfeit' at any time.

Re:NFTs are the new Beanie Babies by gruez on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:02PM (#28870071)
> Not true. Someone could take an image that I've created, stick it on a server, create an NFT with a URL pointing at it, then sell it. Likewise, others, including me, could then create an NFT with a URL that points at that piece of data. The original creator (me in this situation) wouldn't have created the 'original' NFT.

Right, just like how you can make a deed that says you own 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

>NFTs don't solve counterfeiting when anybody can create a 'counterfeit' at any time.

never claimed it did, only that NFTs can potentially provide a better way to assign/transfer copyrights than the current system of paper contracts.

Re:NFTs are the new Beanie Babies by ferdowsi on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:57PM (#28867652)
A centralized authority and hundreds of years of legal tradition to resolve property disputes?
Re:NFTs are the new Beanie Babies by gruez on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:32PM (#28868893)
I was thinking of more "the courts". That's not in line with the crypto-anarchist narrative people like to think must be associated with NFTs, but I think having NFTs replace the complicated system we use to assign ownership today (eg. title searches/insurance) is a pretty attainable goal that doesn't require replacing the entire government with blockchain.