Hey :wave: I came across this: <https://twitter.c...
# thinking-togetherc
curious_reader
12/04/2021, 3:35 PMHey 👋 I came across this: https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1321239372449153024?s=21 inside this:
https://variant.mirror.xyz/T8kdtZRIgy_srXB5B06L8vBqFHYlEBcv6ae2zR6Y_eo
What do you think about this file analogy?
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karki
12/04/2021, 4:05 PMIt’s scary how crypto has brought about a group of people who don’t completely understand what they’re promoting 🤔
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Andrew F
12/04/2021, 9:12 PMThere's nothing about publicly tracking "ownership" metadata for a piece of media that actually prevents you from copying its bits. The only way I can see that even beginning to work is with DRM hardware that respects the blockchain. I can only see that as a dystopia.
I'm holding myself from stronger language because it's possible I'm misunderstanding something, not having followed the whole NFT thing closely, but based on my understanding of what computers and cryptography can actually enforce in the real world, this seems like nonsense.
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Jack Rusher
12/05/2021, 7:34 AMThe author of this piece appears confused.
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Konrad Hinsen
12/05/2021, 8:53 AM@karki It wasn't crypto. People promoting stuff they don't understand have been around for at least as long as we have written history. It's surprising that we don't have a word for this behavior.
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Konrad Hinsen
12/05/2021, 8:57 AMBut this thread also makes me wonder if "ownership" has come to mean something different in blockchain circles. Blockchains being closed universes, with references possible only within each universe, they cannot express any of the traditional forms of ownership, which are about a social consensus of associating something with a person and deriving behavior from it.
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curious_reader
12/05/2021, 11:02 AMI actually think they are, kind of , trying to reinvent this for themselves.
curious_reader
12/05/2021, 11:04 AMIt’s almost like human beings have forgotten how to trust each other and now they are trying to learn that again, being blindfolded by technology that is.