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Loot Shooter Copycat The First Descendant Accused Of Ripping Off Destiny 2 Art
8.7.2024
I’ve had some fun with The First Descendant but I wouldn’t say a strong, distinctive art style is one of its core virtues. It’s a pretty derivative game from head-to-toe. Now it turns out that some of the free-to-play loot shooter’s in-game icons appear to be ripped almost wholesale from Destiny...
Spider-Verse Producer Calls Generative AI Plagiarism, Promises None Of It In Third Movie
3.6.2024
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is probably one of the most-anticipated movies in superhero films right now. After the incredible Into the Spider-Verse and its equally great sequel Across the Spider-Verse were praised for their stunning, eclectic animation, fans are looking forward to the third...
Modeler Who Compared Palworld And Pokémon Critters Denies Fabrication Accusations
24.1.2024
The Palworld and Pokémon drama continues. After Pocketpair’s monster-taming survival game was accused of ripping models from Game Freak’s RPGs, an X (formerly Twitter) user has gone viral for comparing monsters between the two games. The comparisons were similar enough to convince fans that...
He Exposed Harvard President's Plagiarism, Then Lost Money Betting on the Story
20.1.2024
Are prediction markets the future of investigative journalism? Maybe, says Chris Brunet, whose reporting led to Claudine Gay's resignation – though he's yet to profit from his scoops
Polygon Zero accuses Matter Labs’ developers of plagiarism
3.8.2023
Polygon Zero has accused Matter Labs of copying significant code from its Plonky2 library to zkSync, a rival Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution
Influencer Formerly Associated with Azuki Postpones NFT Drop After Plagiarism Accusations
24.6.2023
Pseudonymous NFT researcher and artist Elena admitted to tracing other pixel art to pad out her upcoming collection Atomic Ordinals
Shiba Inu community divided over allegations of code, chain ID plagiarism
16.3.2023
"I just want to know why, we, a billion dollar project that paid $10m dollars to develop our layer 2, have another projects Chain ID," wrote one user
Plagiarism, Fork, or Simple Mistake? Shiba Inu Community Debates the Origin Story of Shibarium
16.3.2023
SHIB is down 8% and millions have been unstaked over allegations that the Shibarium code was stolen
Cent NFT Marketplace Suspends Activity Due to Plagiarism Issues
14.2.2022
Cent, one of the first marketplaces to allow people to sell tweets as NFTs, has suspended almost all of its activity due to plagiarism-related problems. According to its CEO and co-founder Cameron Hejazi, people keep selling NFTs of other NFTs or using content that is not owned by them originally...
Popular Twitch Software Changing Name Following Plagiarism Accusations
17.11.2021
Yesterday, the Twitter account for the livestreaming software Lightstream accused rival streaming software maker Streamlabs of stealing marketing copy from its website. After Lightstream tweeted about how Streamlabs’ website text was modeled on its own, other companies began to corroborate with...
Anime Tokyo Babylon 2021 Canceled Due To Plagiarism But New Version Planned
29.3.2021
Originally scheduled for this April, Tokyo Babylon 2021 was delayed last December after the anime had apparently based character designs on a promotional photo of K-pop star Yeri from Red Velvet as well as another source without permission. Now, it’s been announced the anime will be canceled, with...
SolidX files lawsuit against VanEck alleging Bitcoin ETF ‘plagiarism’
13.1.2021
SolidX accuses VanEck of terminating their partnership in bad faith after “surreptitiously” working to launch a Bitcoin product based on SolidX’s work
Craig Wright Accused of Plagiarism Again
6.5.2020
An anonymous blogger has again accused Satoshi claimant Dr. Craig Wright of plagiarism — this time in his doctoral thesis
Is Twitter Helping Justin Sun and Other Cryptocurrency Celebrities Defraud?
8.3.2020
A site as hugely influential as Twitter should ideally take a balanced and responsible approach when suggesting blue check accounts and other popular influencers to follow in the crypto space. Fact is, this couldn’t be further from the reality: Twitter seems to constantly promote the same...
BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Accuses Binance of Plagiarism; CZ Apologizes
4.9.2019
BitMEX blames Binance for forging their documents, a while ago through a tweet that came out as appalling for the later. In the tweet, they congratulated Binance for their Testnet futures and spoke that they’re happy to see the enthusiasm that their documents brought to their executives. Here’s...