时间:2024-11-10 10:33:31 来源:网络整理编辑:百科
Winamp is doing NFTs now, because you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become t
Winamp is doing NFTs now, because you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Announced to widespread derision on Wednesday, Winamp will auction off the media player's original skin as a one-of-one NFT on OpenSea, with bidding to start on May 16 and run until May 22. It then intends to sell 20 more artworks starting from May 23, all of them duplicated around 100 times to create 1997 NFTs in total (a nod to the year the program launched). Each will cost 0.08 ETH, which is approximately $225 at the current conversion rate, so if all 1997 NFTs are sold it would total almost $450,000.
These 20 designs will be derived from the original Winamp skin, and chosen from public submissions.
"Send over your derivatives to us," reads Winamp's website. "Our team of Winamp scientists will examine every cryptoArt that comes its way and 20 derivatives will be selected to be sold as Winamp’s NFTs."
If a submission isn't selected, the competition's terms and conditions still grant Winamp "a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, copy and display the Art."
If it is selected, the artist waives all rights to their work and irrevocably hands over the copyright to Winamp. And while they will be allowed to post it on social media, it will be on the condition that they add a notice declaring the copyright and all rights belong to Winamp.
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To be fair, the endeavour is supposedly for a good cause. The Winamp NFT Initiative is in support of the Winamp Foundation, which funds charities such as Music Fund that help musicians. (While Music Fund is the only charity the foundation currently supports, a Winamp spokesperson told Mashable it is open to discussions with any other music-focused charities who may reach out.)
Still, it is possible to support charity without also turning to widely loathed blockchain technology.
It also feels as though the charity is actually coming from the artists, rather than Winamp itself. While 80 percent of the income from these NFTs' initial sales will go to the Winamp Foundation, only 20 percent will be paid to the artists — around $45 per NFT. On resale, 80 percent goes to the reseller, 10 percent to Winamp, and 10 percent to the artist.
"The Winamp NFT Initiative is the first operation that will bring funds to support charity projects through the Winamp Foundation," a Winamp spokesperson told Mashable. "There will be other creative operations to raise funds and this will not only be about NFTs. Our mission is to support music and musicians and we are proud to help them through this initiative. The Winamp NFT Initiative is a creative and innovative operation that will at the end support music and musicians, it also give visual artists the opportunity to share their arts, get recognition, and [earn] revenue...
"[Winamp] has always looked towards the future and not the past, we embrace innovation.... We understand that some of our users may be surprised but we are confident that they will like the new platform."
SEE ALSO:Think cryptocurrency is bad? NFTs are even worse.Launched in 1997, Winamp was the preferred media player for millions of millennials in the early days of the internet. The program was famous for its customisable skins, with users able to choose from thousands of community-created options to suit their desktop's aesthetic.
Among those who hate Winamp's latest move is Justin Frankel, one of the media player's original creators.
"I have spent the last number of years giving the owners of Winamp benefit of doubt," Frankel tweeted in response to the announcement. "No more. You are terrible."
Elaborating on his website, Frankel expressed "[s]trong disapproval for multiple reasons."
"Environmental impact is terrible, and also it is a negative-sum ecosystem so anything that encourages more people to buy into it so that the people who previously bought it (or mined-in) can cash out is a bad thing," he wrote. "Just to be clear the skin itself isn't being auctioned, a URL that points to the skin is. IIRC it was made by [Winamp co-creators] Tom [Pepper] and Dmitry [Boldyrev]."
Up until this week, Winamp still inspired fond feelings of nostalgia in many. Unfortunately, general disdain for NFTs now seems to have soured the memory.
UPDATE: Mar. 21, 2022, 9:53 a.m. This article has been updated with comment from Winamp.
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