Linden Lab why are you charging VAT to one customer while waving this tax for other customers?

[Ceka Cianci]

Just stepping in for a moment then, I swear I am out forevers! \o/

hehehehe

NFT's/Non-fungible tokens are irrevocable where lindens and regions can be revoked at any time. In other words LL can just poof them at any time. You don't own the lindens or the region.

NFT's you gain ownership.

[Quistess Alpha]

2 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:

NFT's you gain ownership.

Actually, no, you're getting recognition/association with the object in a distributed database. most/many 'art' NFTs are hyperlinks to images not hosted on the blockchain (because images are large and encoding is expensive). your "ownership" is not enforceable in any real sense (anyone can access the hyperlink, 'terms and conditions' may or may not allow you to sue someone for using the image) and the off-chain hosting site can 'poof it at any time' if image hosting gets too expensive.

[Rowan Amore]

@Count Burksstill waiting for an answer to my questions...

On 3/13/2023 at 8:00 PM, Rowan Amore said:

If LL decides to make paying in Lindens available for ALL regions owned by an individual will you...

~continue to allow payment through PayPal on your rentals?

~take advantage of this service and pay in Lindens thus avoiding VAT?

 

 

[Theresa Tennyson]

13 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

Just stepping in for a moment then, I swear I am out forevers! \o/

hehehehe

NFT's/Non-fungible tokens are irrevocable where lindens and regions can be revoked at any time. In other words LL can just poof them at any time. You don't own the lindens or the region.

NFT's you gain ownership.

I'm sure people "gained ownership" to the Brooklyn Bridge too...

[Coffee Pancake]

13 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

NFT's you gain ownership.

Nooo nono no no you don't.

You get a link in a database.

That's your lot.

Feel free to imagine what that means, what you can do or claim or do. It might have been suggested that you own more than a copy of the image, maybe some rights to reproduction or copyright .. but unless you signed some physical legal document at the time, you don't.

If you save any image to your phone you have as much ownership, without needing to pay for the expense of having a reference on some blockchain (of which there are many).

This is 2 hours .. I know.. long form video essays, who has time for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

 

[Ceka Cianci]

42 minutes ago, Theresa Tennyson said:

I'm sure people "gained ownership" to the Brooklyn Bridge too...

At least they didn't have to pay the reoccurring monthly maintenance fee after the initial purchase of the asset.. hehehe

 

 

 

[Lindal Kidd]

I don't think Count Burke has grasped the basic tenet of digital citizenship:

"It is incumbent on all digital citizens to avoid, evade, dodge and escape any and all taxes, fees, stamps, and registrations which Governments may seek to impose, charge, levy, or extract from them."

In other words, he's working for the Enemy.