SYDNEY: An Australian software developer says he has made thousands of non-fungible token images freely available, calling it an art project that aims to show the absurdity of property-rights concepts in digital assets.
Geoff Huntley, the project’s creator, claims to have collected all the images associated with NFTs minted on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains and made them accessible via an accompanying website called NFT Bay, modeled on the infamous Pirate Bay peer-to-peer search service.
The effort is compiled into a 17-terabyte “billion-dollar torrent”, Huntley said, because of the vast sums of money people have spent to acquire ownership of the pictures within it — images that anyone can copy perfectly and effortlessly from the web.
Huntley points to the fact that images associated with NFT property rights are…
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