BREIN Shuts Down Usenet Indexing Community, Settles With Operators
Aug31

BREIN Shuts Down Usenet Indexing Community, Settles With Operators

Based in the Netherlands, anti-piracy group BREIN has been fighting copyright infringement of all kinds since it was founded around 20 years ago. One of its key activities in more recent years has been tackling file-sharing sites. BREIN has taken on the very largest of platforms, such as The Pirate Bay, and has been a major player in testing EU legislation in key areas, particularly in relation to the ‘making available’...

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Yandex Refuses to Remove Pirate Content: Blocking Imminent, Despite Appeal (Updated)
Aug31

Yandex Refuses to Remove Pirate Content: Blocking Imminent, Despite Appeal (Updated)

A dramatic situation is developing around billion dollar Internet company Yandex and several major Russian broadcasters. Gazprom-Media and others claim that Yandex isn’t doing enough to keep ‘pirate’ content out of its search results. After reaching a brick wall with the search company, the broadcasters filed a copyright infringement complaint with the Moscow City Court, the entity responsible for handling ISP...

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6 open source tools for making your own VPN
Aug31

6 open source tools for making your own VPN

If you want to try your hand at building your own VPN but aren’t sure where to start, you’ve come to the right place. I’ll compare six of the best free and open source tools to set up and use a VPN on your own server. These VPNs work whether you want to set up a site-to-site VPN for your business or just create a remote access proxy to unblock websites and hide your internet traffic from ISPs. read...

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Publishing Markdown to HTML with MDwiki
Aug31

Publishing Markdown to HTML with MDwiki

There are plenty of reasons to like Markdown, a simple language with an easy-to-learn syntax that can be used with any text editor. Using tools like Pandoc, you can convert Markdown text to a variety of popular formats, including HTML. You can also automate that conversion process in a web server. read...

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3 innovative open source projects for the new school year
Aug31

3 innovative open source projects for the new school year

I first wrote about open source learning software for educators in the fall of 2013. Fast-forward five years—today, open source software and principles have moved from outsiders in the education industry to the popular crowd. read...

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