Geeking out With RPGs and NFTs: AdaQuest to Hold a Public Sale on KICK․IO
PRESS RELEASE. It is surprising how many NFT enthusiasts are also into role-playing games. In retrospect, it was only really a matter of time before someone combined these two passions into one. That’s why KICK.IO launchpad is excited to announce a new fun and promising project – AdaQuest, an NFT-based role-playing game. AdaQuest is a unique RPG project that utilizes collectable NFT-hero cards within the Cardano blockchain to allow...
Manga Publishers’ Lawsuit: Cloudflare Fails to Terminate Pirates or Verify Identities
Early this week news broke that major manga publishers Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa were about to sue Cloudflare in Japan. The basics are relatively straightforward. The publishers believe that since Cloudflare is structurally involved in the presentation and delivery of pirate sites that use its services, the company should do more to help copyright holders when Cloudflare’s services are used to infringe copyright. Up...
U.S. Seeks Significant Prison Sentence for SPARKS Member to Deter Other Pirates
For several decades, The Scene has been the main source of all pirated content made available on the Internet. Technically, release groups operate in a closed ecosystem, but the reality is different. The vast majority of the files published on private Scene servers eventually find their way to public pirate sites. Feds Bust SPARKS Group The secretive nature of The Scene has been a major challenge for law enforcement but in the summer...
Anti-Piracy Group Received $290K in Settlements from Usenet Pirates in 2021
It’s one of the oldest methods for sharing large files online but despite advances in modern technology, Usenet (also knows as newsgroups) still has a considerable following among enthusiasts. While it can be used for a multitude of other things, Usenet’s popularity and longevity have certainly been boosted by the mountains of copyrighted content that exist on the sprawling system. Over the years, finding such content has been made...
How open source supports businesses’ impact on climate change
In the coming decade, climate changes will compel the creation of new ecological norms and rules for our economy. The financial industry will be at the center of this transition, determining which companies and technologies are granted the resources they need to spearhead this evolution. read more Powered by...
