An OpenSea user named StakeTheWeb sells NFTs of footage featuring influencers and YouTubers online, without their permission. Popular YouTube gaming channel owners Jim Sterling and Caddicarus are a few of the celebrities included in this NFT collection.
Although these NFT sets have been removed by OpenSea, some NFTs with less popular influencers still remain on the site. Strangely, these NFTs also contain a unique URL that contains the YouTube channel address of the influencer or YouTuber it contains.
Images of some celebrities were converted to NFT and sold on porn magazine covers without their permission:
Some users do more than turn an influencer’s image into an NFT and sell it. Alanah Pearce of Santa Monica Studios stated in a tweet that the image with his face placed on the cover of a porn magazine is being sold as NFT. The Adult Erotic Arts account is reportedly putting NFTs featuring photoshopped celebrities for sale. OpenSea has now deleted this account.
OpenSea said: “For this purpose, it is against our policy to delist NFTs and in some cases to sell using plagiarized content. We are actively focusing our efforts on customer support, security and site integrity so that we can act more quickly to protect and strengthen our community and producers. We’re expanding.”
If you want to read the tweets on the subject, we leave it below:
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