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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by mewse on Saturday November 20, 2021 @07:00AM (#29287334)
> It what sense does a Moon share give you any ownership over any part of the moon? If someone else goes up to the Moon and builds a lunar base on "your" piece of the Moon, does your Moon share give you any way to stop them?

In what sense does a Token give you any ownership over any part of the image? If someone does a copy&paste operation and starts selling "your" image on a t-shirt, does your NFT give you any way to stop them?

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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by imgabe on Saturday November 20, 2021 @07:03AM (#29287349)
You don't need to stop them. You don't own an image, you own a token. People can copy the image all they want, that doesn't give them ownership of the token.

I can go to the Louvre and take a picture of the Mona Lisa. That doesn't mean I own the Mona Lisa.

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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by rsynnott on Saturday November 20, 2021 @06:51PM (#29292887)
Similarly, if you buy a certificate implausibly claiming that you own a bit of the moon, well, you own a certificate implausibly claiming that you own a bit of the moon.
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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by the_only_law on Saturday November 20, 2021 @06:54PM (#29292905)
Heh, that reminds me of these ads I kept seeing some time ago, that claimed to offer some sort of title in Scotland that was based on owning some minuscule plot the company was selling.
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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by rsynnott on Saturday November 20, 2021 @08:59PM (#29293520)
In that case, while the title's not real, you may at least _actually_ be buying a very small amount of land (though some of those things are just scams).
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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by imgabe on Saturday November 20, 2021 @07:26PM (#29293038)
Save this comment so you can look back on it in ten years.
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