Non-Fungible Olive Gardens

Re:Non-Fungible Olive Gardens by yalogin on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:39PM (#29644033)

How is Olive Gardens allowing this? They may choose to let it get them some free PR and then shut it down. Also, this doesn't make any sense. The whole thing is completely meaningless.

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Re:Non-Fungible Olive Gardens by tantalor on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:40PM (#29644040)

Explain "shut it down"?

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Re:Non-Fungible Olive Gardens by yalogin on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:49PM (#29644123)

Some kind of a legal notice? Its not that hard to imagine the legal options a company will have if someone is using their IP, right?

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Re:Non-Fungible Olive Gardens by pedalpete on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:42PM (#29644598)

Yes, but it's on a distributed blockchain. An immutable record of ownership and held in a wallet protected by a private key. So what does "shut it down" mean in that sense? They can go after the owner of the NFT, and the people who minted the Olive Gardens in the first place, but are they going to take down all the ETH nodes? Perhaps all the NFTs will have to be transferred to the ownership of Olive Garden, but that isn't shutting it down.

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Re:Non-Fungible Olive Gardens by copo233 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:06AM (#29650260)

I want to ask you a framing question: have I violated anyone's rights if I tell you that I had Cheerios for breakfast this morning?

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Re:Non-Fungible Olive Gardens by mrshadowgoose on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:20PM (#29644399)

It's hilarious (to some people), and those people paid to take part in that perceived hilarity.

And how exactly would Olive Garden shut this down?

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Re:Non-Fungible Olive Gardens by exolymph on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:15PM (#29644357)

They'll DMCA OpenSea and other popular frontends.

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