When you buy an NFT, what do you own? The image? The commercial rights? Or is it really just a bit of HTML pointing to a JSON file on a blockchain? Or, as the joke goes, you can own any NFT you want by simply right-clicking and hitting Save As, taking ownership of any bit of digital art you want. But surely saving an NFT to your hard drive doesn’t convey ownership, right? The answer depends on who you ask. So when one man decided to download every NFT on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, the conversation surrounding NFTs and digital image ownership took another interesting turn. Man Downloads Every NFT and Turns Them Into a Free Torrent So, here’s what’s going on. An Australian man named Geoffery Huntley decided to download every NFT available on the Ethereum and Solana blockchain. In the process, Geoff downloaded 19TB worth of NFTs across the two blockchains. Now, that’s a seriously massive volume of images. After completing his mission to download every NFT, Geoff decided that the best way to share his newly aquired NFT collection was to turn the entire thing into an easily sharable torrent, uploaded and hosted on a site…
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