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[Link] New Music Industry Takedown Service Targets NFT and ‘Metaverse’ Piracy

Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com

Italian anti-piracy group Digital Content Protection has launched a new service that helps rightsholders to police NFT platforms, Web 3.0 projects, and metaverse precursors.

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[Link] Being a Facebook Metaverse ‘Community Guide’ Seems Like a Nightmare Job

Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com

Imagine you had to moderate a Facebook comment thread, only each commenter was able to come up to you, wave their hands in your face, and scream whatever they want. Peanutbutter sighs loudly and approaches the group of kids.

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[Link] Zuckerberg: Meta Will Continue To Subsidize Headset Cost

Read: 8/11/2021 uploadvr.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave insight into the company’s current and future hardware business model at Connect 2021, indicating that the plan is to continue to sell devices at cost or with subsidies to help build a larger ecosystem with as many users as possible.

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[Link] Parallel metaverses: Facebook’s name change is challenged by Arizona retailer Meta PCs

Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago.

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[Link] Zuckerberg’s role in Facebook rebrand may backfire, experts say

Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to remove “negative associations” between Facebook and its parent company may be undermined by his decision to front the launch of its rebranding as Meta, experts have said.

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[Link] Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms.

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