SEC Chair’s Dire Crypto Warning: Thousands Are Doomed to Fail
SEC Chair Gary Gensler has warned of widespread crypto failures, labeling the industry as speculative, sentiment-driven, and lacking the fundamental stability needed to survive. Gary Gensler’s Chilling Crypto Forecast: A Ticking Time Bomb of Failures Gary Gensler, the departing chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has expressed sharp criticism of the cryptocurrency […] Powered by...
ISP Huffs and Puffs Then Apologizes to 3 Little Piggies Over Pirate Downloads
So-called ‘three strikes’ anti-piracy schemes were once considered a cutting-edge response to P2P piracy. Also known as ‘graduated response’, a typical scenario would see rightsholders monitor BitTorrent swarms to capture participants’ IP addresses sharing their content illegally. Those IP addresses would then be reported to a friendly (or coerced) ISP for matching against subscriber records, as a prelude to ISP customer outreach. An...
MissAV: One of the World’s Largest ‘Pirate’ Sites Targeted in Takedown Effort
Adult entertainment is massively popular online and there are many pirate sites that specialize in this niche. In Asia, Japan in particular, MissAV is the leading player. The site, which has a strong focus on uncensored Japanese Adult Videos (JAV), is listed among the 15 most-visited websites in the country. With over 300 million monthly visits, it’s also one of the most trafficked websites globally. This is a major frustration for...