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“The album itself is kind of the O.G. NFT,” said Mr. Johnson, 34, who was proudly sporting a Wu-Tang T-shirt.

To tie “Once Upon a Time” to the digital realm, an NFT was created to stand as the ownership deed for the physical album, said Peter Scoolidge, a lawyer who specializes in cryptocurrency and NFT deals and was involved in the transaction. The 74 members of PleasrDAO — the abbreviation in its name identifies it as a “decentralized autonomous organization” — share collective ownership of the NFT deed, and thus own the album.

As the owners, they can listen to the 31 tracks on its two CDs, ogle its engraved nickel-silver box and leaf through the leather-bound parchment book that are part of the item’s overall package. But, for now at least, PleasrDAO’s members are still bound by the original restrictions that RZA and Cilvaringz imposed on Mr. Shkreli, including that it cannot be released to the general public in any form until 2103 (88 years from its initial sale in 2015). Archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20211021081900/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/arts/music/wu-tang-clan-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin.html

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[-] smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

Every time I’m reminded of this dumbass album my love for Wu-Tang diminishes a little more. From the slums of Shaolin to making an exclusive album for rich assholes. What a joke.

[-] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 months ago

I have a small hope inside that the whole thing is just a way to fuck with rich people and the album is nothing but fart noises.

[-] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It has to be. Or... Hear me out I'm just spit balling here.

Poopy-di scoop

Scoop-diddy-whoop

Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop

Poop-di-scoopty

Scoopty-whoop

Whoopity-scoop, whoop-poop

Poop-diddy, whoop-scoop

Poop, poop

Scoop-diddy-whoop

Whoop-diddy-scoop

Whoop-diddy-scoop, poop.

Or something like that.

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Martin Shkreli can get fucked eternally.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Eternity times infinity.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Is there a reason why they picked 88 years after its initial sale?

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

88 years happens to be 7 years off from the expiry of copyrights in USA, and they started to work on the album ~6 years before the "release".

It could be related to that somehow, maybe they used copyrighted material on the album that would go public domain that year

[-] Hellinabucket@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't the songs themselves go public domain right around then?

[-] knova@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

I think it’s lifetime of the creator + 70 years, so unless they die in the next several years… no, the copyright on the album would outlast whatever they perhaps sampled illegally.., but maybe they sampled someone younger than them like a Taylor Swift…

Who fucking knows

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

To steal a joke from Seth Meyers,

88 is better than 69 because you get 8 twice.

[-] ElderReflections@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago

Tbf I prefer the work of Engelbert Humperdink

[-] FardyCakes@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

More like P.U. Tang Clan amirite?

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