An unauthorized NFT drop celebrating InfoSec pioneers has collapsed into a mess of conflicting takedowns and piracy. An unauthorized drop celebration celebration has collapsed.

The package included portraits of 46 distinct figures, with ten copies of each token. The full value of the drop was roughly $ 4,000.

Nft stands for’non-fungible token’. It can contain anything digital, including drawings, animated GIFs, songs, or items in video games.

The portrait images misspelled several names, including EFF speech activist Jillian York and OpenPGP creator Jon Callas. Based at least one drawing on a copyright-protected photograph more controversially included some figures who have been ostracized for harmful personal behavior, including Jacob Appelbaum and Richard Stallman.

York tweeted a link to her own portrait and said simply,’I do n’t approve of this whatsoever and would like it removed’.

The itsblockchain team apologized on Twitter for not obtaining likeness rights in advance. But there’s no clear procedure for removing tokens that have already been sold. It is mostly counting on the central opensea platform to remove the tokens and resolve the issue.

The group said in an email to the verge that’we want to take it down’.’we have been trying to resolve this issue,’ they said.