Artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog who previously used copyright to fight off neo-Nazis who turned the character into a mascot, has found himself in yet another weird spat. His nemesis this time is an anonymously-run NFT project that Furie claims rips off Pepe, which the project denies. On Monday, Furie succeeded in getting OpenSea to take down the project Sad Frogs District, which the NFT marketplace listed as “officially verified” since August 9. The project’s website is also currently offline, which a post in the project’s Discord channel said was a “temporary” measure. Furie’s lawyers confirmed that ... (full story)