Police Launch Investigation into Huge Pirate Manga Site Mangamura
Back in March, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the government was considering measures to prohibit access to pirate sites. While protecting all content is the overall aim, it became clear that the government was determined to protect Japan’s successful manga and anime industries. It didn’t take long for a reaction. On Friday April 13, the government introduced emergency website blocking...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 05/14/18
This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Black Panther is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart. This week’s most downloaded movies are: Movie Rank...
The Pirating Elephant in Uncle Sam’s Room
It’s not a secret that, in sheer numbers, America is the country that harbors most online pirates. Perhaps no surprise, since it has a large and well-connected population, but it’s important to note considering what we’re about to write today. Over the past decade, online piracy has presented itself as a massive problem for the US and its entertainment industries. It’s a global issue that’s hard to...
5 Emacs modes for writers
Not all writers work within the confines of a word processor. More than a few of us tap out words in a humble (and sometimes not so humble) text editor. When you find a text editor that works for you, and works the way you want it to, you tend to hold onto it like that beaten up leather jacket, like that dog-eared book, or like that collection of old vinyl records. read...
An introduction to the Pyramid web framework for Python
In the first article in this four-part series comparing different Python web frameworks, I explained how to create a To-Do List web application in the Flask web framework. In this second article, I’ll do the same task with the Pyramid web framework. read...
