fucking hell they didn't even bother to remove fucking watermarks OR signatures!

OpenSea is registered in the .io (British Indian Ocean Territory) domain. I think they're beyond the reach of international law.

so... send them an email bomb?

My hacker mojo is too long out of date, but if it can be done, I'm all for it.

Damn, they stole some good shit. I don't really understand the NFT stuff or what's going on here.

They made a good choice to try to get Ether, it'll likely be the next trillion dollar coin, real scummy way to get it though. So damn dirty.

Fairly big reason that I no longer post art on social media, and have removed it. I'll be scaling back elsewhere as well because I'm too tired to bother having to safeguard pixels against environment destroying scams and thievery, but get complained at that I'm 'pay-walling' my work.

Sadly I've seen a few really well known artists that I've followed pull their entire online portfolios, and require legal signatures agreeing to terms that commissioners won't use the image for profit, won't remove watermarks, or agree to buy the trademarks/rights/copyrights of the work outright. I'm lucky enough to have saved some of their work before all of this.

It is really sad that stuff is getting to this point, but paywalls seem to be the least worse solution. At least the creator will get something out of it other than just headaches and frustration of having their art stolen :/

The only reason for NFTs is money laundering.

First and foremost, the buyer is buying proof that they bought a link to something - nothing more. The link could die or the linked thing change and they'd be out what they spent on it. So other than throwing money away there's no reason to buy a NFT ...

And it costs the seller money/crypto to make each NFT and to sell each NFT (when I first looked into this con-game it was around $150 and $100) so you have to be sure you have a buyer willing to pay you more than the making and selling of the NFT will cost you.

The only winner is whatever 'Bank'/crypto manager is selling/trading your NFTs for you.

so that means those scamming aren't even the wisest in this game? figures.

Look at it this way, let's say I need to pay you a large sum for something under the table, and not get caught doing it.

So you pick 'anything' and make a link to it and then make a NFT for the link.

I 'pay' you for the NFT.

I did a money transfer and all the coppers can find is I bought a NFT that's probably dead now. Were you to do this through a few hoops and you can transfer a lot of money that can't be found. On your side the sudden appearance of money was selling some NFTs for a good sum (not the same ones I bought of course, we made several temp 'people' that bought/sold between us.)

And the 'banks' selling/transferring NTFs collect their fee. All perfectly good for high rollers, but not worth the cost to us little guys ...

this sounds like "abusing loopholes" like selling interest papers to and fro, and each time they get sales tax money back that has never been paid in the first place... only because the financial agencies are way too undermanned to catch them. there has been a lot of taxpayer money burned that way, financing illegal organisations.

Ironicly, a lot of the big art galleries are the same thing as the nft thing. After all who can say that piece of “art” which is just a batch of junk isn’t worth a million dollars.

but there things are worth what people want to pay... here they are scamming some third party with it and just use our beloved animal people images. :P
I wouldn't mind if someone paid me a milion dollars for one of ym crappy paintings. XD

Start selling drugs then?

but then I'd have to wash the money clean again via NFTs... :P

Nobody ever swipes my gallery art. I'm not sure whether to be relieved or insulted. ;D

same here. I have seen a few reposts to e621, but I guess that doesn't count...

This is why we need the matrix so we can place cortex bombs and black ice inside artwork watermarks.

Ral Partha had three figures on tab showing black ice: one samurai, one spider, and one panther, made of polygons... somethign for everyone: beheading, arachnophobia, and furryphobia. XD