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.
He’s so deluded in delusion. Trey and Matt should make an episode where he is the only coherent character, and everyone else is speaking his wackadoo nonsense whenever it cuts to his perspective.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.