Ben cajoled well-known artists, including Jake and Dinos Chapman, David Bailey, Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor, into decorating stormtrooper helmets. These were auctioned off for charity.
But fed up of seeing people making fortunes when he was living in a council flat, Ben hatched a plan — the mendacity and illegality of which was outdone only by its sheer stupidity.
He sold online photos of the helmets, certifying each as unique with an NFT. That's a 'Non Fungible Token', though it could equally stand for 'Not Flipping There' . . . because when lawyers at Lucasfilm, which owns all the rights to Star Wars, got wind of Ben's racket, they ordered him to delete all the images.
Read a very enlightening article by Christopher Stevens in The Daily Mail here.
