Martin Shkreli Accused of Copying and Sharing One-Of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album in New Lawsuit
Martin Shkreli Accused of Copying and Sharing One-Of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album in New Lawsuit
Drops a couple mil on an album and rips it to MP3 instead of FLAC. The fuck is wrong with this man?
You have me giggling over here mate. But it's true!
This is one of those truly great moments where you can hate all sides of this. They're all kinda shitty skeezy assholes, so whoever loses is a net win for humanity.
Wu-tang is for the children.
So it goes.
Hmmmm. Best outcome I can think of would be the judge telling the dao to fuck off then putting pharma bro back in prison because.
That article was hard to read because of how smug and douchey Shkrelis quotes are.
Fuck Martin Shkreli. Fuck him in his stupid asshole.
Stupid idiot bragging about having MP3s to a priceless album. He doesn't even have the FLACs?
Prob had to stuff 128bit recordings up his prison wallet
This should be fun; who will the terminally online hate more, Shkreli or a group of NFT grifters?
Both?
Both is good.
Wu Tang did NFTs? That’s hilarious and sad
Edit: would be a lot funnier if there were Wu Tang NFTs
WuTang didn't make an NFT. They recorded an album that had no public release, and sold the only existing copy to a single buyer like a painting.
This was kind of a slap in the face to their fans and what music is, but this was long before NFTs were a thing.
PleasrDAO, who purchased it from Shkreli, is some sort of NFT group apparently. And they're suing because they have plans to make money off limited listening events lol
Well… consider the source. It’s Wu Tang. Hilarious and sad is kind of their thing.
I thought whoever bought it also got the rights to do that?
The suit was filed by PleasrDAO, a digital art collective that purchased the album from Shkreli in 2021 after Shkreli was ordered to fork it over to cover a $7.4 million forfeiture tied to his 2017 fraud conviction. (Shkreli purchased the album for $2 million; PleasrDAO paid double that.) According to the lawsuit, Shkreli violated the terms of both the original purchase agreement and the forfeiture order by allegedly making and retaining a digital copy of the album, playing it during his live streams, and sending it to others.
I don't like seeing anyone sued for music piracy but I'm glad it's him.
Ah. So now it makes sense why anyone cared.
If that's true, it's epically retarded....
IIRC, that was part of the deal buying this and part of what made it so expensive and unique. News article at the time talked at length about the secrecy aspect. Kinda dumb IMO but I understand a super fan wanting to own something like this. The fact that this A hole bought it instead then immediately broke contract...
Nah, I think not until 2139 or something
S-tier scumbag, rarely do you find a more pure specimen of assholery.
If you ever want to feel incredibly angry, watch some interviews with him. He's the kind of guy who would unironically say he's generous and kind because his pharma corpo sells a lifesaving drug for $1,750 a dose while the other corpos all sell it for $2,000+ per dose.
The personification of a Ayn Rand hyper-capitalist, a totally soulless husk. Chatbots from the early 2000's have more heart than him.
I read this in "The AI's Voice" from Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Obviously it was so he could upload it to Archive.org… right?! /s
The poster boy for Backpfeifengesicht
Personally I'd give that honor to this guy
Reading the headline with a wuxia background and not knowing that there's a hiphop group that took the literal same name as the classic martials art clan, I was quite confused.
Listen to their stuff. It's relevant
Relevant to what? according to wikipedia they are credited for revitalizing "east coast" hiphop, so not even american, but a section of the US, and I'm not even from that continent. It would surprise me that what they say is relevant to my local history, and there's tons of music media that criticise the current society, I'm not going to listen to a media type I won't enjoy.
Sorry if I came brusque but so did you.
When keeping it real goes wrong.
I mean I hate Martin Shkreli and rap, so this is really a win-win scenario. I mean if I had that kind of album that was supposed to be one of a kind, I'd have that bitch uploaded to some Chinese website in about an hour on principle.
Idk how anyone hates an entire genre. Just sounds like you haven’t listened to enough. I go just hates all rock music? All jazz music?
I've never heard a good country song, and before you link anything, if its good I don't consider it to be country.
This fucking guy. It'd be great to never hear about him again.
His face is so punchable, but I never get to punch it!
never give up, never surrender
He reminds me of a dopier-looking version of Dr Crane from the Dark Knight movies.
Shit I'd trade Elon for this fucker any day.
Him and Musk should do a hip hop video from inside of a fiberglass submersible touring the titanic.