Bitcoin Cash Can Scale Exponentially and Support the Global Economy
For well over a year now the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) protocol has shown quite a bit of capability as far as on-chain scaling is concerned. The creator of Bitcoin knew that the technology had to expand in scale quite vastly in order to accept the magnitude of global commerce and businesses on the blockchain. In the early days, Satoshi told people that the technology would follow alongside Moore’s Law with high-performance computing,...
Fox Sports Obtains New Order to Block Pirate Sport Site Rojadirecta
In dozens of countries around the world, website blocking has become one of the preferred ways for copyright holders to restrict access to pirate sites. While very popular in Europe, the tactic has been spreading, with blockades now in place from Asia to South America. The latest involves infamous sports streaming portal Rojadirecta. Targeted at mainly Spanish speaking visitors, Rojadirecta has experienced legal issues in several...
Kodi Addons Linked to Malicious Cryptomining Campaign
Last month it was reported that a Netherlands-based repository, which contained several popular Kodi addons, had been shut down by anti-piracy group BREIN. The Dutch developer and administrator of XvBMC-NL was visited by bailiffs in July and soon after the repository shut down. BREIN offered to settle the matter for 2,500 euros as long as the admin known as ‘Z’ signed an abstention agreement. Months earlier, however, the...
Copyright Cop? ISP Willingly Kept Pirates On Board, Labels Say
Last year several major record labels, helped by the RIAA, filed a lawsuit against ISP Grande Communications, accusing it of turning a blind eye to pirating subscribers. According to the labels, the Internet provider knew that some of its subscribers were frequently distributing copyrighted material, but failed to take any meaningful action in response. The ISP refuted these claims and in August it submitted a motion for summary...
Convert files at the command line with Pandoc
Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting files from one markup language to another. Markup languages use tags to annotate sections of a document. Commonly used markup languages include Markdown, ReStructuredText, HTML, LaTex, ePub, and Microsoft Word DOCX. In plain English, Pandoc allows you to convert a bunch of files from one markup language into another one. Typical examples include converting a Markdown file into a...
