[jazzyjackson]

The right-clickers aren't thinking ahead, or alternatively, NFT backers are thinking too far ahead. The endgame is, inside a metaverse you don't get to view the media you haven't bought a license to - Fortnite is a unique world in that they can license IP from Marvel, Star Wars, DC. The shinyness of the Ready Player One universe owes itself to that mixture of nostalgia of all different properties. I don't know that an open-source / pirate-friendly platform will be allowed to exist.

The NFT backers are placing their bets that intellectual property will be more rigidly enforced in the future. Basically conferring "First-sale Doctrine" to digital assets. The right-clickers think nothing will change and that platforms without "Right click -> Save As" will fail to catch on.

Maybe NFTs have a future, but as Richard says in Silicon Valley S03E09, "being too early is the same as being wrong"

[skinnymuch]

Do any NFTs right now give you ownership over the pic or what have you? I haven’t seen any that have. I also haven’t looked too deeply.