Yandex Under Fire Again, This Time For Linking to Blocked RuTracker
With copyright holders and anti-piracy outfits continue their battle to make infringing content harder to find, legitimate companies are increasingly finding themselves in the firing line. In Russia, pressure is building on search giant Yandex, which is being targeted by rightsholders from multiple directions. Their main point of concern is that Yandex’s indexes sometimes carry links to allegedly infringing content. However,...
Bell and Rogers Ask Government to Simplify Site Blocking and Criminalize Streaming
The Canadian Government is currently exploring if and how the current Copyright Act should be amended to better fit the present media landscape. One of the key issues is the compensation that artists receive for their work. This was also the focus of a hearing before the House Heritage Committee this week, at which Bell (BCE) and Rogers both made an appearance. The companies are Canada’s largest Internet providers, but both also...
Accused Pirate Can’t Escape Liability By Pointing at a Family Member Without Detail
More than eight years ago, German citizen Michael Strotzer was the subscriber of an Internet connection from where an audiobook was made available on a peer-to-peer network. The copyright holder, Germany company Bastei Lübbe AG, was not pleased and demanded that he stop the infringing activity. This later escalated to a full-blown lawsuit in which the publisher demanded damages. Strotzer, however, denied that he had personally...
What is your favorite Linux screen capture tool?
The ability to take screenshots in Linux is something that I find really useful when composing how-tos and training materials for students or readers. But there are many different ways to do this. read...
How to use Pandoc to produce a research paper
This article takes a deep dive into how to produce a research paper using (mostly) Markdown syntax. We’ll cover how to create and reference sections, figures (in Markdown and LaTeX) and bibliographies. We’ll also discuss troublesome cases and why writing them in LaTeX is the right approach. read...