you don't understand me. the item is not destroyed. you can save the image, anyone can save the image, the image is not gone. one website that was hosting it is gone, and now you have a completely meaningless entry on a blockchain.
Yeah, I mean, I don't. You purchase the entry on the blockchain which is your proof of purchase that you are the "proprietor" of the Elon musk doge image being hosted on DarpaLabs, and then DarpaLabs pulls their servers and everything on them is lost or "destroyed". Similarly if I buy a TV from BestBuy and then vaporize it, all I have now is a receipt that says I bought a TV from BestBuy. I figure that's pretty standard, obviously NFT's can't just arbitrarily point to new places.
There is some particular nuance about ownership here that I'm obviously not understanding.
there is no way to mitigate this with archiving or any other "professional modern computing" tactic that you are thinking of. without that single third party continuing to host it, you can no longer prove to anybody that you "own" the image
I mean... there is though. Like I said, BAYC is hosted on IPFS which is a decentralized P2P media hosting protocol distributed across it's end users. There's a lot of technical explanation here, but the problem is actually completely mitigated, entirely. You're not going to lose that content.