NFTsAsProperty

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So basically the crypto game is basically, pick thing in internet culture or pop culture. Create a speculative investment named on it, pre-allocate a ton of it to yourself, promote it to fools and gamblers, dump, repeat. That's it, that's all there is. All else is sophistry.
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) November 1, 2021

And my response : https://twitter.com/interstar/status/1455172944859172871

@smdiehl It might be better to think off it like this. This is a ''property culture'' where ownership is fetishized and owners are a privileged class. For a while it looked like the online world was going to follow a different logic: commons based production, freedom & abundance.

NFTs are an attempt to reassert the primacy of property in the virtual world. And people are being invited to bet on property culture eventually winning out against free culture, by buying in early.

It's almost a protection racket : buy virtual property now because when we finally take over there won't be any left, and you'll be a pauper in the MetaVerse

Contrast :

NFTs as forced enclosure

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Interesting thread on the potential chilling effect of NFTs: what if the availability of free art on the internet is reduced as it's seen as open game by bad NFT actors?

This could result in artists having to jump on the NFT bandwagon or withdraw their art from the open web. https://t.co/n23T9uRb0m
— See @flancian@social.coop, flancia.org (@flancian) December 22, 2021

People are taking non NFT art that doesn't belong to them, and making it into NFTs. Effectively forcing artists to join the NFT world to prevent their own work becoming someone else's property

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This is why Richard Stallman invented the GPL. To prevent private platforms capturing and enclosing work that was intended to be free / non-property

Artists need something similar. Maybe @creativecommons needs to be updated with a new "Invalidade NFT property claims" clause.
— phil jones (he/him - ele) @interstar@artoot.xyz (@interstar) December 22, 2021

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