BREAKING NEWS
@aggroed and @yabapmatt are seeking legal counsel to sue the HIVE High Council for illegally copying the SteemMonsters... wait?... what's that?... oh,okay... uh, this Justin, oops, I mean just in... it appears that @aggroed and @yabapmatt will NOT be suing the HIVE High Council, well, because they are ON the HIVE High Council!
Years ago, while I was a young man living in the States, I was a huge fan of basketball collectibles. I remember when Shaquille O'Neal was the number one draft pick; I ran to the local shop to get packs and packs of basketball cards in the hopes of finding that limited edition, gold foil rookie card. Never did find it! Who knows, maybe it's now worth a $1,000? Wow, what if someone could make an identical copy of it?! Even if that copy belonged to the same owner, I could insist on buying it for $500, being that he now has two of them! If only that Shaquille O'Neal gold foil rookie card was a Steem Digital Collectible!
The idea of limited edition digital collectibles has its foundation in the very fact that your collectible is original, and cannot be copied or duplicated because of its unique digital signature on the blockchain.
Whether you want to open you eyes or not, ALL of your SteemMonsters and NextColony digital collectibles have been copied onto another blockchain WITHOUT your consent. Whatever fancy rare or legendary card or planet you have in your collection, well, cut the price in half, because you now have another EXACT copy of it.
And to all you Settlers and Raiders who have explored the NextColony Universe for the past year hunting down those Legendary Planets... with no success; well, with a click here, and a click there, the HIVE High Council has just magically popped several more into existence. Hey, maybe @xx0xx can figure out how to sell his three brand spanking new, freshly minted Legendary Planets on the HIVE blockchain, and get some of his 30,000 STEEM back. Oh, I forgot to divide that in half... sorry... that would be 15,000 STEEM... that is, of course, if the HIVE High Council doesn't freeze his account!