--- title: "New Website Shows How Silly NFTs Are by Pirating Them" description: "A new pirate website called The NFT Bay is already hosting 15 terabytes of NFTs for \"right clickers\" to download." date: "2021-11-18" modified: "2021-11-19" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/website-pirating-nfts" categories: - "Blockchain" - "Future Society" - "NFTs" tags: - "blockchain" - "nfts" - "the digest" --- # New Website Shows How Silly NFTs Are by Pirating Them ![A new pirate website called The NFT Bay is already hosting 15 terabytes of NFTs for "right clickers" to download.]() *\Image: The Pirate Bay\* ## The NFT Bay A growing number of "[right-clickers]()" are downloading NFTs left and right to demonstrate that "owning" a digital piece of art online is basically meaningless. And now they're getting a brand new home, thanks to Australian artist and programmer Geoffrey Huntley, [*Vice* reports](). Huntley created a new torrent website called The NFT Bay, an homage to The Pirate Bay, one of the biggest and oldest torrent sites, allowing users to pirate TV shows, movies, books, and games. It's an especially pertinent topic, given the sheer amount of media attention NFTs have been getting recently thanks to a series of [celebrity endorsements]() — but whether the two warring factions will ever find common ground and bury the hatchet is unlikely. https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1461322836165885954 ## What The Token Huntley has already made 15 terabytes of NFTs readily available to download. "Did you know that a NFT is just a hyperlink to an image that’s usually hosted on Google Drive or another web 2.0 host?" a description of the site reads. "As web 2.0 webhosts are known to go offline, this handy torrent contains all of the NFTs so that future generations can study this generation’s tulip mania and collectively go ‘WTF? We destroyed out planet for THIS?!'" it continues. ## This Is Mine Now It's an unusual standoff. On one side are crypto enthusiasts forming tightknit communities around collections of small JPG images or [investing in digital art](). And on the other, an increasingly vocal contingent is openly mocking that cause. What makes it even stranger is the fact that NFT collectors are wholly aware of the fact that anybody can just come along and right click save their art — and a massive new pirate archive won't change that hostile dynamic. **READ MORE:** [Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs]() \[*Vice*\] **More on NFTs:** *[Watch Post Malone Buy An NFT While We Slowly Chart Our Descent Into Hell]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()