NFTSTAR and Neymar Jr․ to Release Beastmode Metaverse HUMAN NFT Drop
PRESS RELEASE. The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) (“The9”), an established internet company, has newly announced that its NFT community NFTSTAR is releasing the next drop of exclusive NFTs in collaboration with professional Brazilian international footballer Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior. The collaboration so far has been a huge success, with the first drop of Beastmode Metaverse, named ‘JungleVIBES’, hitting over 60,000 freemints worldwide...
Twitter Files for Payment Business — Elon Musk Says Platform Could Offer Debit Cards, Money Market Accounts
Twitter has filed paperwork with the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to start a payment business. Tesla CEO and Twitter chief Elon Musk explained the social media platform could offer “an extremely compelling money market account” in addition to “debit cards, checks, and whatnot.” Elon Musk Shares Ideas for Twitter’s Payment System Twitter Inc. filed registration paperwork with the Treasury Department’s Financial...
US Senator Says Crypto Needs ‘More Aggressive Enforcement’ — ‘I’m Going to Keep Pushing SEC to Enforce the Law’
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren says the implosion of crypto exchange FTX shows that the crypto industry needs “more aggressive enforcement.” She stressed: “I’m going to keep pushing SEC to enforce the law to protect consumers and financial stability.” However, many people pointed out that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has failed to provide clear crypto regulation, leading to U.S. investors using offshore exchanges like...
MindGeek Wins $32m in Damages from Adult Pirate Site Daftsex.com
Adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek owns several of the largest ‘free’ tube sites including Pornhub. In the early days, these sites thrived on pirated content but over time, that changed. Today, MindGeek itself is of the most protective copyright holders in the industry. MindGeek subsidiary MG Premium, for example, has many thousands of works registered at the US Copyright Office. To prevent these videos from being shared online...
Once Branded Notorious Pirates, Sites Agree to Filter Out Pirated TV Shows
In early January 2012, many operators of successful, public file-hosting sites were looking forward to another productive year. Over the space of just a few days, everything changed. The destruction of Megaupload by the US government had serious implications for sites with a similar business model. Sites that paid cash to uploaders based on file popularity seemed particularly vulnerable, so it was not unexpected when some threw in the...
