Since NFTs came to the attention of the public around the summer of last year, a false undercurrent has prevented them from becoming widely accepted. Stories of art theft are common, which harms the industry’s reputation in the public and provides a platform for discontent to grow.
Truth be told, though, the questionable employment of NFTs speaks more to humans than it does to the underlying technology. Before NFTs, it was challenging for digital artists to succeed in a harsh environment. Basically made more difficult by people’s propensity to “right click and save” every image they came across online.
With the introduction of NFTs, a fresh method of commercializing digital art emerged. However, many undesirables started to do the unpardonable before they even knew about the technology, searching websites like DeviantArt for works that weren’t their own in an effort to make a few Ether in the developing Web3 economy.
Since then, the business has grown a little, and good safety mechanisms like DeviantArt’s Protect Protocol are now helping to protect artists online. But the anger brought forth by the widespread art theft persists, and many people are afraid of the technology that made it all possible.
NFTs Provide an additional layer of security for Creators
Despite this, artists may utilize NFTs as a force for good to safeguard their creations from these rapacious tycoons. In essence, NFTs are entries in a secure, unhackable digital ledger, each with a distinct, unchangeable data print that is date-stamped and signed by a different wallet address. As a result, NFTs can offer undeniable evidence of the NFT’s creation date and author information. As a result, should an artist mint before making their work public, they now have the ability to demonstrate when it first appeared online.
These days, people may easily and cheaply mint products to quick and efficient chains thanks to Web3 systems like OpenSea. Consequently, this makes it possible for artists to get a start on illegal activity and demonstrate with absolute certainty that they have a work’s very first iteration permanently stored on the blockchain.
So, instead of hating the NFT for the harm done in its name, digital artists everywhere should embrace the technology and enable it to offer an additional layer of protection to their work.
