New EU Piracy Watchlist Targets Key Pirate Sites and Cloudflare
In recent years the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has released several reports detailing “notorious markets” that contribute to large volumes of copyright infringement worldwide. The annual reports are aimed at guiding the U.S. Government’s position towards foreign countries where these sites and services are located. With a focus overseas, US-based platforms are not included. Earlier this year the EU...
Scammers Use Facebook and Google to Spread Malicious ‘Pirate’ Files
Last weekend we reported how scammers were sending DMCA notices to downrank game piracy sites. Presumably, this was done to give their malware-infested pirate sites a better ranking in search results. While our previous article focused on the abuse of takedown notices, the problem is much broader. In addition to removing content, scammers are also spamming many sites with messages that link people to their dubious pirate sites. We...
IFPI Slams Pirate MEP For ‘Lobbying’ Kids, Forgets a Decade of Rightsholders Doing Just That
As the controversy over the EU’s Article 13 proposals continue, Twitter appears to be the communications weapon of choice for parties on both sides. While the debate has often been well thought out and considered, at times it has descended into a chorus of potty-mouthed name-calling that at times has proven embarrassing to read. But that’s the Internet, of course. As one of the main opponents of Article 13 and in...
When Linux required installation parties
I studied math in college. Back then, ordinarily, math students didn’t have access to the computer lab; pen and paper were all we needed to do our work. But for my one required programming class, I got access to the college computer lab. It was running SunOS with remote X terminals (this was circa 1996). I immediately fell in love with Unix. I fell in love with the command line, X Windows, the utilities—all of...
How to build deep learning inference through Knative serverless framework
Deep learning is gaining tremendous momentum in certain academic and industry circles. Inference—the capability to retrieve information from real-world data based on pre-trained models—is at the core of deep learning applications. read...