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0 pointsspamizbad4y ago0 comments

> NFTs - yes you can right click and save as. No they haven't figured out at scale how to attach the image / work to the ledger. Yes hype and pyramiding is a fucking disaster and people would go to prison trying those antics in any other industry. But digital art, music, & culture has a real deficit in ownership, provenance, etc.

There are several NFT "thought leaders" who have casually floated the idea of eliminating "right-click save-as" functionality for NFT'd images. So it seems to be slowly evolving in the direction of a DRM scheme.

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taldo4y ago

I can imagine that someone is going to come up with a way to encrypt the stuff, such that only the holder of the private key "owning" the NFT can decrypt it, or something along those lines.

boopboopbadoop4y ago

Their solution is to change browser functionality? Good luck.

spamizbadOP4y ago

I think the idea was lobbying browser makers to do so. You could of course still pull the image in via cURL or whatever so its pretty dumb.

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