Thoughts on NFTs? Does it effect your view on DAZ piracy?

NOTE: This is my personal opinion and not that of ZoneGFX and it's other Admins.

There's a huge Twitter series of threads where artists are finding their art has been given out to NFT auction sites without their knowledge, and without them being involved or earning anything from their own works. Many are filing takedown notices without success, and there are no laws to protect them. Many are finding their works are being ripped from their galleries and even DeviantArt and Patreon by bots. (DeviantArt is now offering NFT bot protection for around an extra $4 USD a month).

Many of those complaining are considering giving up making art on open platforms and only selling physical medium anymore. Many of these artists earn their rent and food money from their artwork. This ruins everything for a large number of them.

It's been interesting to follow.

Many artists are 3d or 2d and Digital Graphics folk, many others are photographers. But to mention the thousands of images being indescriminitely ripped from Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat for sale as NFTs as well.

So don't be upset when a photo of you and your family suddenly is featured in online ads selling mortgages or Viagra or God knows what. They hold a receipt from an NFT auction stating they own the image... And you cannot do anything about it.

Piracy of the highest level, and so pirating stuff from Daz or Tafi or whatever their name really is, shouldn't make anyone feel bad. If you have an art gallery there, chances are Tafi has already sold it's contents in the blockchain.

Woohoo!

AnjaBear

They market it as a good thing for the artist, but IMO it's just new way to screw somebody for money.

@anjabear

There’s a huge Twitter series of threads where artists are finding their art has been given out to NFT auction sites without their knowledge, and without them being involved or earning anything from their own works.

This had me wondering if DAZ has done the same to some of their members and their PA's.

I saw the NFT backlash on their forums, not that it'll stop the money making machine.

The whole NFT scene feels like a Ponzi scheme to me. I did a little reading on it back in the summer and decided that a) I didn't really understand it and b) from what little I did understand, it wasn't the artist that was going to benefit from it in the long run.

As everyone knows during WWII, the German army had almost an infinite arsenal of weapons never seen before, such as the V1 and V2 bombs, but they had something even more powerful, it was the largest artillery piece ever. built, the cannon.
Two units of this colossus were created, although only one went into combat, as they were unique pieces, one was called "Gustav" K - Gustav kerät, and its twin was called "Dora".

Its measurements were as follows: the length of the barrel base was 47 meters, the length of the barrel as a cylindrical tube through which howitzers came out was 32.5 meters, the caliber of the barrel was truly amazing, it fired 800 howitzers. mm, weighing 7 tons, they were bigger than a person.

The origin of this cannon was for the Germans to attack the Maginot line defended by the French, but when the time came to attack the Gallic country in 1940, the cannon was still being assembled in the krupp workshops in Essen, this and that the panzer tore through the defenses without any problem making this cannon almost useless.
Therefore, it would be necessary to look for another objective to at least test it in real combat, an idea of ​​the High Command of the Wehrmatch was the so-called Operation Felix, which consisted of taking the square of Gibraltar and locking up the allied troops in the Mediterranean, but the plans were truncated since to assault Gibraltar the Germans would have to cross Spain, but Spain was neutral and Franco did not give his approval to carry out the operation, therefore Gustav was again without any clear objective.
This "little one" needed a staff of 1400 men between troops and auxiliaries, and moved in a convoy of 25 train cars, almost had its own army to be handled, an immense cannon with an immense expense in personnel and materials.
In 1941, during the Barbarossa operation, he was mobilized again to go to the front, it seems that at last his time had come, the objective was in the Crimean peninsula, the fortified base of Sevastopol, an important port for the Russian navy.
That's how the NTF matters to me with that weight on my balls ... 😀

@Abad I'm not sure I quite understand your analogy apart from the idea that big things and plans often prove useless and fail on the ground. NFT could well go this way too. In 1928 everyone lost their money on just the same greedy speculative mindset on which NFT is now based.
Jesus wept, paying $600,000 for the Nyan Cat NFT, something that you don't own or have copyright to, and a piece of crap artwise, can only be justified if some other idiot will buy it from you for more that you paid for it.... hoping a fool is born every minute. Perhaps they are. A society obsessed by greed and superficialities.
It's a sad sign of our times....

Honestly? I'd like to say that it will collapse quickly, but I think it'll end up like Twitter - they'll fake it until they make it.

One thing I do disagree on, re: "They hold a receipt from an NFT auction stating they own the image… And you cannot do anything about it"

If that image contains your likeness and there's no model release in their possession with your signature, they no longer own it, and further, owe you royalties and/or recompense. Only problem is, good luck collecting unless the offender is in your country and you can find a friendly court to plead your case in.