NFTs (thread now extremely NSFW)

Yeah I just assumed the celebrities shilling NFTs were being paid to.

"just LOOK at this badly drawn cartoon monkey"

https://i.imgur.com/88qe8TZ.jpg

finally decided to mute "NFT" on Twitter, looking forward to living a nice, quiet life of simplicity and contemplation, kind of like a modern day Thoreau

But what if the National Film Theatre announces their summer season?

If you could own color on the blockchain—and earn royalties from it each time an NFT that uses those colors trades, which colors would you mint? This is what we're going to make possible at the upcoming @colordotmuseum NFT market.

— Omar Farooq (@curator1of1) January 29, 2022

Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky

"Who owns the color blue?"

A question a child might ask, but not a childish question...

https://www.businessinsider.com/colors-that-are-trademarked-2012-9?op=1

"The color PURPLE is a trademark of 3M," reads a 3M box, BoingBoing reported in 2010.

https://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/prince.jpg

I tried muting NFT, crypto, cryptocurrency and blockchain but Twitter still recommends me cryptocurrency posts all the time

Good one

pic.twitter.com/MMsHl7DJ8I

— Crypto Bros Taking Ls (@CoinersTakingLs) February 1, 2022

imagine having to report a monkey avatar as income for tax purposes

I’ve only dabbled in the space, but the taxes are still confusing. Ultimately I’ve funneled most things through Coinbase, so I’ll go with whatever they send me on the 1099 and hope for the best.

IRS, don’t read that.

https://i.imgur.com/xYFabrm.png

Uh so Hitpiece then! What the fuck.

good thing it's all anonymous so nobody can be held accountable

/s

MC Serch being revealed as the guy behind Hitpiece is fuckin hilarious

I give it the gas face

anybody know how i can remove my band's music from hitpiece

https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/Infringement

twitter says you can probably bug godaddy (they're apparently hosting it) to take action at this link. what they've done is so big and blatant a lot of people are very mad, they're probably going to get sued out of existence very quickly. the magic blockchain thinking says "we're not selling the actual music, just a link to the spotify page so we're not violating any copyright" but there's still album art, trademarks, likeness etc. that people can take legal action on.

not entirely sure how this is any different from betting on fantasy football tbh

it's basically just album cover trading cards right? you're purchasing conceptual cache.

obviously the accompanying artwork/photography/iconography has no business being involved but honestly it seems no less morally bankrupt than the racist fame monkeys

*cachet

Looks like Hitpiece has been taken down, for the time being at least.

lol
http://i.imgur.com/87fofVI.png

no less morally bankrupt than the racist fame monkeys
it's using other people's art without permission as a base for a stupid scam which makes it worse than just doing a slightly-less-stupid (in that it's not going to attract the same level of legal attention immediately) scam that's not piggybacking on the art of others.

there were legal challenges to fantasy football in the past but it was determined that statistics are public domain and not covered by any intellectual property or right of publicity laws but obviously the same argument doesn't apply here.

spotify is going to do this on their own soon enough, i'd rather it be scammy and weird
they shoulda kept the names of the albums and then bobson dugnutt the artists and done msPaint versions of the cover, that woulda been an art project

It must be true:

https://twitter.com/joinhitpiece/status/1488713458702974979

Or maybe even that's gone now.

lol they must have literally gotten every band on Hitpiece cuz mine maybe sold 500 CDs in 8 years

https://www.hitpiece.com/artists/6pWDEPYBDZvKV0oZ6NOxAo

it seems like they just scraped all of spotify yeah lol

Again, I suggest we campaign for all people who are into this stuff to be launched into the sun.

They're working on it!

Are you ready Rocket Factory? The rocket project taking flight in the NFT space? Join us for this project showcase as we learn all about this new type of NFT!

Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory is a trans-dimensional manufacturing plant, which uses NFTs as brick stones to build new NFTs. Design your own, never-before-seen NFT rocket and watch its physical copy launched to the “outer space”! The Component NFTs will be claimed randomly, but how you combine them to mint YOUR Rocket is entirely up to you.

lol

https://i.imgur.com/52FWivd.png

They're doing the work

https://maxread.substack.com/p/mapping-the-celebrity-nft-complex

We're doing a listening tour of your wallet

if this is true the whole thing is even scummier than i thought

CALLED IT pic.twitter.com/pNDNZMyF4r

— nigh eve6 (@Eve6) February 2, 2022

Everyone ... has API access from Spotify?

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/

i might buckle and consider buying an NFT of this: pic.twitter.com/0lzFPoQZh9

— Hausu Mountain (@HausuMountain) February 2, 2022

how did i know to look into this specifically re: the main guy at the NFT scam site pic.twitter.com/m3OXNPI2X2

— speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted guy (@sad13) February 2, 2022

https://www.stereogum.com/2175127/notorious-new-music-nft-platform-hitpiece-targeted-by-riaa-for-flagrant-ip-infringement/news/

as predicted hitpiece is getting serious legal attention and the RIAA seems far more interested in suing them into oblivion than cutting a deal like they seemed delusional enough to believe would happen

ooops all lawsuits!

lol the RIAA had no problem suing single mothers for $300,000 because their son downloaded "LiNkIn-pArK-numb.exe", what made these guys think this wouldn't happen

there's no way they weren't anticipating it but it seems like they had the "disruption!" "move fast break things" attitude of "they'll see what a great opportunity it is and we can cut a deal" or something similarly delusional in this context

They could have also had a lawyer telling them that since they weren't actually selling anything but a link to a picture of cover art they were golden.

If I made a NFT of the words "Derek & The Dominos - Layla" would anything be actionable?

Get someone on Fiverr to draw a shitty technicolor bottle that looks like a Pfizer vaccine bottle, write the title of various Eric Clapton songs on copies, mint them.