Magic: The Gathering owners forced to explain copyright law to unofficial NFT project
In case anyone was wondering: No, NFTs do not "magically" operate outside legal jurisdiction

UPDATE: We replaced this article’s header photo after learning people apparently conflated the man in it, actual Magic: The Gathering person Jimmy Wong, of being affiliated with MTGDao. Mr. Wong has absolutely nothing to do with said legally dubious project, and we apologize for any confusion.
Despite practically every other commercial during the Super Bowl trying to convince us otherwise, we remain somewhat skeptical of the majority of cryptocurrency and NFT projects. By no means are we suggesting that investing in bitcoin is a wholly worthless endeavor more akin to gambling than any form of sound financial savings strategy… but, y’know, tread lightly.
This goes doubly so for the world of “non-fungible tokens.” Last we checked on NFTs, someone was attempting to sell musicians’ entire song catalogs as blockchain-based collectibles — which was brand new information to literally every musical act featured by the company, HitPiece. Ted Leo succinctly encapsulated the situation by describing the culprits as “Bottom feeding scavengers of late capitalism sucking the last marrow from our bones and/or running a scam on me, you, or everyone.” Well put, Ted.
So, what’s the latest sketchy-as-all-hell NFT project circulating the Internet this week? Basically the exact same thing as HitPiece, but swap out songs for Magic: The Gathering cards.