[Link] Piracy Icon LimeWire Is Coming Back, But As an NFT Marketplace

Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com

LimeWire as we knew it shut down in 2010, after a judge ruled that LimeWire’s creator, Mark Gorton, on charges of copyright infringement and helping others infringe artists’ copyrights. But here in 2022, LimeWire is back—as an NFT marketplace. 

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[Link] Holding onto a teenage email address: ‘The lawyer raised her eyebrow when she saw’

Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

Louise is an Oompa Loompa. She has been an Oompa Loompa for more than 15 years. “It’s too much hassle to change it,” Louise tells me. Most of Louise’s internet presence is linked to the Willy Wonka-inspired email address she picked as a teenager. And she’s not the only one.

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