[kranke155]

“The money they are making isn't because of their art...”

Yeah you lost me there we must have radically different exposures to NFT art because the stuff i see is magical. Not sure what you’re looking at but you should check out Hic Et Nunc, OBJKt and my fav - FXhash which is a generative art market on Tezos.

A lot of things you’ve said can be true and simultaneously we could also have a healthy global digital art market growing under our noses for the first time in human history.

[chii]

> global digital art market

but that market isnt selling art - it's selling the signature for a piece that is infinitely reproducible. if i was unscrupulous, i could just pirate the art, and forget about the signature, and the artist has no recourse but to sue me for piracy.

how the signature plays into this i dont know, but it seems that i can entirely ignore the signature if i want the art.

[kranke155]

You can’t pirate the art since it’s not copy protected. NFTs are not meant and I think should not be meant to be used as copy protection. It’s DRM without enforcing scarcity , since it does not prevent copying and redistribution of the artwork.

If you mean that you can just re upload the art somewhere and mint NFTs under false pretenses, I expect this to (hopefully) be solved soon.

NFTs are an authentication mechanism for provenance/authenticity but it is not meant to prevent others from looking at the art.