so actually the NFT use case that makes the most sense to me so far is NFT nudes. insofar as the NFT architecture imposes artificial scarcity on top of infinitely copyable information, at least an NFT nude gets to be like āthis is the special copy thatās just for you big boy šā
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generally, and speaking only for my hangups, i am quite uncomfortable about the whole concept of selling digital information - ebooks, art, music, etc. with the exception of commissions. i believe pretty strongly in āinformation wants to be freeā. NFTs are... the opposite?
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to me there is something really special about the infinite copyability of digital information. i think we donāt have good funding models yet for producers of such information (writers, artists, musicians). NFTs feel to me like a step backward, like DRM
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what iād like to see instead is a compelling theory of digital economics that builds in infinite copyability as a foundational assumption from the outset. how do people capture enough of the value of their digital products to make a living without imposing artificial scarcity?
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i think the model that feels least bad to me right now may be the patreon model - where people arenāt paying for individual products, theyāre paying to support you as a creator. that makes sense to me and doesnāt require scarcity; you can just not have any patron-only content
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i donāt want any of this to discourage people from fucking around with NFTs, experimentation in this space seems good, and, one of the deals with experimentation is that most new ideas are bad. ppl have pointed out parallels to the ICO boom of 2017 and, well, time will tell
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NFTs aren't like DRM. There's no copy protection at all. You can totally go to any of the NFT marketplaces and just copy all the actual content. All it is is an official stamp of "ownership". TBH I don't see the appeal for buyers.
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yeah i donāt mean it is functionally like DRM, there wasnāt room in the tweet - what i mean is they both strike me as an attempt to retreat to scarcity instead of taking digital non-scarcity for what it is and working with it on its own terms