NFT and the Future of Digital Content
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Well, it MAY very well make it easier to steal art, that I don't know, but I don't think Daz is going to do it or condone that sort of thing. However, I disagree with the entire dirty business of NFTs on their environmentally wasteful nature and because of the corruption and general shadiness surrounding the whole bitcoin thing and anything that has to do with it.
Thanks for the reply, if they can steal those masterpieces from that gallery legally, then it is as bad as I think.
One tenth of an ETH doesn't seem to have the same value between different sellers. Why is that?
It was a hoax.
Thanks for the reply and for explaining it, I still don't quite understand unfortuntaly. But the: "But due to thevetting process at many sites, people who are not the owners are uploading those files and charging money for NFTs." doesn't make me less scared of this..
. The world is full of shady sites....
WHich of course never made it into the news here. Thanks for the link.
How do I multi quote on this forums?
That charity is a bit hypocritical. Given the carbon footprint of all that crypto stuff, including NFT's, its like cutting down the rain forest and with a few left-over timbers, you build a rescue boat for the young people, so they can have a bright future. What I really cannot understand is that in times where quite alot of companies really do invest in corporate social responisbility (CSR) (often just for "greenwashing", that's true), Daz is engagieg in the completely other direction. Crypto-something is as far from CSR as one can get, without leaving the solar system.
Sounds like they had good intentions, but they should have thought this all the way through, the world is full of a...s who wants to steal from other people so if it can be done they will....
ETH conversion rates change constantly, so I'm guessing that is what you are seeing reflected.
...if they didn't obscure pretty much the entire piece I feel more people would use them. Stock photo services use ones that are not as "obtrusive" as the DA one but are still effective. As I mentioned imagine say the Mona Lisa with a big DA logo plastered over it, or a more subtle work where it actually obscures fine details for the viewer.
If this makes it easier to steal art and Daz is helping them somehow, and it sounds like it, then I will need to stop shoping here
, follow the other site more closely and buy more there than here. I love Daz, atleast I did until now.... Art theft is the lowes of the lowest, and if this makes it easier to steal art then I want not part of it or the companies associated with it.
There are also ways to invisibly mark your artwork. Apps like iWatermark (iPad/iPhone) can invisibly code picture metadata into the image. Since you own the original (unmarked) image, you can spot check what metadata was encoded into your art. Some of my customers use that method to identify from what web site their images were stolen, and when (the web site encodes the system time into the image when it is displayed). Using serbver logs, they can determine from wihich IP address that image was loaded.
..I am aware of that but the Daz EULA seems to get in the way as one would be sending raw meshes to a third party. This was also an issue when 3D printing services became available as well.
Why not have a Daz sponsored render service? it would keep everything "in house", save many artists the financial pain (particularly with what happened with the former and current crypto craze) of needing a high VRAM GPU so rendering wouldn't be on the slow road, , and it would be another avenue for Daz to generate income. Sort of a "win-win-win" scenario.
This article should hopefully explain a lot of the concerns, including the potential for art thievery - https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/tech/nft-hacking-theft-environment-concerns/index.html
No worries. It's just one of those things that catches my proofreading eye.
The part that should really make your brain hurt is that the difference between .1 ETH and .01 ETH is a hundred of dollars ($189 vs. $18).
...+1
Yeah, he'd have a field day with this one.
The charity-touting concerns me as well. I'd much rather donate to the charity directly, especially when in this case, helping Diigitals is helping a white guy continue to accumulate wealth built with fake diversity.
NFTs have nothing to do with making stealing easier or harder, and for the most part making an NFT costs money up front.
Here's the thing... If someone wants to make an NFT of your work, they are probably going to do it regardless of the watermark being there or not.
They will either remove the watermark or make the NFT image with the watermark on it. I could just see the sell text "The presence of the watermark proves it's authentic!"
The same people who would steal a person's art likely wouldn't think twice about stealing a different person's credit card info to pay for it.
tbf it was probably a "hoax"
"No I was just joking its just a prank, bro!"
but if they thought they could have actually made money selling them they absolutely would have.
also technically as all the art is in the public domain its not stealing. just disgustingly scummy.
...crikey I wouldn't spend 94.47$ (PC discount) on a new character Pro Bundle let alone 200$ on a GIF, Not sure if many others here would do the latter either.
I do agree with others fixing issues with existing content is more important. Also a better search engine for both the store and forums as well as a descent spell check function in the forums with custom and expandable dictionaries would be welcome. Getting a little weary of having to C&P to Word all the time.
True, but it does make it more tempting. While it does have an starting cost, the potencial earnings are too big.
And here comes another issue. Not being centraliced is what allows the stealing and scams, so one need a "middle man" to provide some kind of order. Daz decided it was OpenSea probably because is the biggest. But OpenSea does nothing to actually ensure transparency, it does not check origin or authenticity and the little efforts it has to look for potencial scams are in place AFTER the NFTs are placed on actuon or sold.
So not only DAZ is now promoting this new tech that has as much (or probably even more) potencial for harm than good; by deciding to not even investigate NFTs they are now exposing its userbase to a technology that is not safe for artits or buyers.
Big OOOOOOF, right there.
Daz... as the kiddos these days say, this isn't good optics at all.
I don't believe that's a fair representation. If you listen to his collaborators, they're more than cool with working with Cameron, and quite proud to be working on his projects. As a white dude, I don't feel it's my place to be indignant on their behalf.
The Diigitals Muses // Alexandrah
I can highly recommend uMark for watermarking, it makes it very easy and has lots of features like batch processing, not very expensive either:
https://www.uconomix.com/Products/uMark/Default.aspx#scroll_one
I guess we'll find out tomorrow if DAZ NFT was a hoax too?
From this article about this: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/30/tech/nft-hacking-theft-environment-concerns/index.html :
"anyone can claim a digital photo or painting as their own by attaching a token to it, even if they didn't create it. And while all transactions on the blockchain are recorded publicly in an immutable digital ledger, there is no requirement that people attach their real names or identities to those transactions, which makes it much harder to get recourse if your work is stolen or compromised.
"Generally speaking, when you're trying to enforce any legal right, not just an IP right, you need to know who to enforce against," said Rebecca Silverhart, an intellectual property lawyer at Toronto-based law firm Heer Law. "The primary issue with blockchain is that many users are anonymous, if not all, or mostly everyone is anonymous, and so to be able to actually enforce against any right is very difficult.". This is what Daz is partnering with or what ever deal they have with them. Someone invented a new way to steal art. Obviously some artists will be able to sell their this way and that is good, but it is at the cost of other artists getting their art stolen and sold in a shiny new way!
I can't sell my art as I make fanart but somehow the theives have no problems with that, and I am very scared that this will make more people steal my art. LEGALLY! 