Thousands of images sold as NFT were published for free

An Australian programmer has released thousands of images into the public domain, published in the format

non-fungible token (NFT). He stated that it was a simple art project whose purpose was to demonstrate how absurd the concept of digital asset copyright is.

Project creator Jeff Huntley stated that he collectedall NFT images that were created with Ethereum and Solana blockchains. They are now available to everyone on a site called NFT Bay, which apparently mimics the world famous Pirate Bay torrent tracker.

The collection was compiled into one file of size 17terabyte, and the torrent for downloading it quickly became known as the “Billion Dollar Torrent”. Indeed, people spend huge sums of money to gain ownership of images that can be copied quite easily from the Internet. The project's author also said that copyrighted NFT images are typically not hosted on the blockchain, and instructions on where to download the corresponding image are considered an NFT asset.

NFT fans claim to be uniquethe blockchain id associated with the image makes each copy rare and valuable. Critics of this idea argue that these assets can be easily copied by right-clicking and saving the image itself.

Source: theverge

Illustrations: thenftbay

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