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[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] Omicron, the Death Metal Band, Would Like to Clarify a Few Things.

Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com

Let’s cut to the chase. There’s a death metal band in Belgium that, as of last week, shares its name with a coronavirus variant. But unlike the World Health Organisation, they were “totally not” influenced by the Greek alphabet. 

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