2tone@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square207fedilinkarrow-up1566cross-posted to: technews@radiation.party
arrow-up1566external-linkA key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.www.theverge.com2tone@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square207fedilinkcross-posted to: technews@radiation.party
minus-squarestormesp@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoExcept people has been stealing art to do NFTs without paying the artists from day 1?
minus-squareExcrubulent@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah, I don’t know why people think this is somehow a new problem.
minus-squaredevils_advocate@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoRight click. Save as. Also note that the ERC721 standard says nothing about royalties. Royaltiew weren’t designed as a “key feature”
minus-squareChrislyBear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s not the art that you buy, it’s the “original URL” that belongs to you. You buy a treasure map leading to a princess. It’s your princess, that’s what is says on the napkin, but everyone can fuck her.
minus-squareTwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYeah, wtf do they mean “anymore”? Did they not see a single artist having their stuff copied and put into some blockchain by grifters?
Except people has been stealing art to do NFTs without paying the artists from day 1?
Yeah, I don’t know why people think this is somehow a new problem.
Right click. Save as.
Also note that the ERC721 standard says nothing about royalties. Royaltiew weren’t designed as a “key feature”
It’s not the art that you buy, it’s the “original URL” that belongs to you. You buy a treasure map leading to a princess. It’s your princess, that’s what is says on the napkin, but everyone can fuck her.
Yeah, wtf do they mean “anymore”? Did they not see a single artist having their stuff copied and put into some blockchain by grifters?