NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don't. - The Atlantic
We took that shortcut because we were running out of time. Seven years later, all of today’s popular NFT platforms still use the same shortcut. This means that when someone buys an NFT, they’re not buying the actual digital artwork; they’re buying a link to it. And worse, they’re buying a link that, in many cases, lives on the website of a new start-up that’s likely to fail within a few years. Decades from now, how will anyone verify whether the linked artwork is the original?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/
