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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] Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries

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

MetaMask is the most popular crypto wallet for Ethereum users, including NFT traders. It is owned by the same parent company as Infura, which is a centralized API that feeds MetaMask data from the Ethereum blockchain.

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[Link] More Than 80% of NFTs Created for Free on OpenSea Are Fraud or Spam, Company Says

Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com

As the NFT market has exploded, so has the amount of theft and fraud associated with it. Artists are by now familiar with the experience of finding, like in a horror movie, their own art staring back at them in OpenSea's digital gallery, being hawked by an anonymous stranger. 

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[Link] This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address

Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com

NFTs are usually passive affairs. A consumer buys the token, and then sells or stores the NFT. The NFT doesn’t really do anything.

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[Link] This Guy is Living Your Wildest NFT Dreams, Making $1 Million in Selfie Sales

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Almost every day for the past five years, Ghozali took pictures of himself sitting in front of his computer and looking stoic.

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[Link] A Poop Emoji NFT Shows That ‘Web3’ Is Actually Pretty Centralized

Read: 11/1/2022 www.vice.com

Last Friday, he published a blog post that went viral in which he explained some of web3’s early failing points—most notably the fact that some important aspects of this decentralized internet aren't really decentralized at all.

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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.

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[Link] The US Government Made It Illegal to Buy These NFTs

Read: 10/11/2021 www.vice.com

The U.S. government put 57 cryptocurrency addresses and one exchange on the OFAC sanctions list on Monday for facilitating ransomware and money laundering.

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[Link] People Have Spent More than $1 Million on NFT 'Girlfriends'

Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com

Good news: you can now buy a girlfriend on the blockchain. Bull Market Girlfriends, a recently-launched NFT collection, come in a wide variety of genres—you can buy a Beauty Queen Girlfriend, a Devilish Girlfriend, a Good Girl Girlfriend or even an Alien Girlfriend.

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[Link] Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed

Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com

Cryptocurrencies are riddled with a dazzling array of scams. Rug pulls, a term for when developers take the money and run, are common. And NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, aren’t immune to that old trick, as thousands of investors of a project called Evolved Apes found out on Friday.

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