<story><title>The NFT Bay is the galaxy&apos;s most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!</title><url>https://thenftbay.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>The creator of this site seems to have a fairly nuanced take, but there some critics who earnestly seem to think that right-click saving an NFT is owning the crypto-bros, where the latter simply couldn&amp;#x27;t care less.&lt;p&gt;There is also something off about about the &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a url&amp;quot; obsession, as if the storage location of the bytes makes a conceptual difference. As if storing bytes on the blockchain (as some NFTs do) would suddenly make critics go &amp;quot;oh, one of copies of the JPEG is stored on the blockchain, now owning arbitrary ledger entries makes total sense&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonporridge</author><text>As someone who likes NFTs in theory, the &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s just a url&amp;quot; problem is a real stumbling block for me, because it&amp;#x27;s a point of fragility for the asset.&lt;p&gt;If the NFT is just a URL, and there&amp;#x27;s nothing within the NFT itself that provably links it to a specific work of media, and ideally a signature from the original artist, then there&amp;#x27;s no way to be absolutely certain that the piece of media currently vended by the URL is in fact the same piece of media vended 10 years ago when it was minted. You could have a situation where people mint NFTs as &amp;quot;shell art&amp;quot; that they trade back and forth to create some kind of established history of value, and then stick in some new piece of art at a later date with a false history of value. Or the URL host could go under or get corrupted by bad actors and start vending the wrong data, and still, you&amp;#x27;d have no way to prove what the original digital media was.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s honestly a blocker for me.&lt;p&gt;Now, if the NFT actually included a hash of the media AND a digital signature of the artist that could be externally verified, then I might be interested.</text></comment>
<story><title>The NFT Bay is the galaxy&apos;s most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!</title><url>https://thenftbay.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>The creator of this site seems to have a fairly nuanced take, but there some critics who earnestly seem to think that right-click saving an NFT is owning the crypto-bros, where the latter simply couldn&amp;#x27;t care less.&lt;p&gt;There is also something off about about the &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a url&amp;quot; obsession, as if the storage location of the bytes makes a conceptual difference. As if storing bytes on the blockchain (as some NFTs do) would suddenly make critics go &amp;quot;oh, one of copies of the JPEG is stored on the blockchain, now owning arbitrary ledger entries makes total sense&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willhinsa</author><text>To be fair there is a non-small portion of the crypto-bros I&amp;#x27;ve seen on Twitter who can get quite mad at people right-clicking. It&amp;#x27;s pretty great trolling to watch when it happens.&lt;p&gt;And has produced some lovely art, too!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;nicodotgay&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1458891554026930181&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;nicodotgay&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1458891554026930181&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>