Early public radio take on NFT’s, the main critique being “hey how do me and my friends get in on this”
More recent public radio take on NFT’s
This is in addition to all the right-clickers, of course
“Security researcher Dan Guido tweeted Saturday night that the security of web3 platforms depend entirely on wallets with universally poor security UX”
The row has developed into a legal dispute after the White Cube sought to raise funds by selling digital images of the Balot statue – known as non-fungible tokens or NFTs – resulting in accusations from the VMFA of a breach of copyright.
A spokesman for the VMFA in Richmond, Virginia, said the “image was lifted directly from the museum’s website without permission, which “violates our open access policy and is unacceptable and unprofessional”.
Renzo Martens, a Dutch artist and director at the White Cube, said: “We have downloaded the image from the internet, as there is no other material made available by the VMFA. We do not have copyright for the image, we use it under the doctrine of fair use.”
“It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money.”
– Canada Bill Jones
So… as of yesterday, Teh Gruaniad* misunderstood that an actual image is being sold with an NFT.
* Ooooooold nickname. It used to be well-known for typos.
I got distracted looking for either the NFT, or the image on the museum’s website, or the museum’s “open access policy”. Mostly because it’d be hilarious if the NFT payload was a link to the actual museum website, or if the museum’s licence was CC-0. I can’t find either.
I can find near enough the same article in a couple of sites, so scratch the first line, looks like Guardian just bought a syndicated story.
So did the people selling the NFTs. If they were simply raising funds, they would use GoFundMe or whatever instead of selling NFTs.
EDIT: The photo they used is probably one of the ones on this page.
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/gallery/woodward_r/balot.shtml
The other news stories with the same wording are on scraper sites that scraped the Guardian’s story, including one that uses a thesaurus to cover its tracks and turned the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts into the “Virginia Museum of Tremendous Arts”.
Ta, I was frustrated at rolling a 1 on my google-fu.
So did the people selling the NFTs. If they were simply raising funds, they would use GoFundMe or whatever instead of selling NFTs.
It’ll be interesting to see if the next phase of NFT grift is “buy this NFT of my ___ diagnosis image so I can afford healthcare”, instead of GFM.
It should be reported like drug busts. “400 DistopiaBucks, a street value of $11 million”
11 million MemeCoinDogCoin, a street value of $4.00.
JFC the amount of NFT and crypto-related ads I’ve been seeing on TV as of late is nothing short of astonishing. Especially the super insulting one I keep seeing with Larry David that’s all like, “lol you’re a backward thinking idiot if you’re not cryptoing right now”. I didn’t even realize until recently that the one I keep seeing with Matt Damon was also some crypto thing (which makes me wonder who the target audience was to begin with).
Grifters gotta grift I guess.
Yes, but it will be with one of these women, so…do you really want that date?
“I’m not sayin’ he’s a code-digger…”
Joke’s on him; they’re actually worthless.
Good news!
That better be true, because Nunchuck’s snark “RTFM” reply to the court wasn’t too bright.
