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by ectopod 1928 days ago
A URL has another huge disadvantage: a URL is the address of a thing, not the thing it is pointing to in itself. The thing it is pointing to can change. If you paid $70 million for a URL pointing to a Beeple artwork, you might be upset if the owner of the URL changed the content to a Rick Astley video.