Mitch Glazier Becomes New Chairman and CEO of the RIAA
Back in April 2017, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that Cary Sherman, the industry group’s Chairman and CEO, would be retiring at the end of 2018 after a 40-plus year career in music. In tandem it was revealed that Mitch Glazier, then Senior Executive Vice President of the RIAA, would be promoted to President of the world-famous music industry group. The plan was for Glazier, who formerly acted as...
Movie Companies Sue Popcorn Time Operator in US Court
Five years ago Popcorn Time took the Internet by storm as the next major piracy trend. The software amassed millions of users by offering BitTorrent-powered streaming in an easy-to-use Netflix-style interface. While the original developers shut down their project after a few months following pressure from Hollywood, others forked the application and took over. Several of these forks were shut down as well, but some remained....
New Law Will See Pirate TV Services Blocked By ISPs in Latvia
Consumers wishing to access TV content are spoilt for choice these days. Masses of content is available via antennas, satellite dishes, cable, and – of course – the Internet. The explosion of the latter has provided huge growth in access to legitimate platforms but alongside there are many thousands of unauthorized services, each looking to take a share of the massive pirate audience. With no clear answer to stemming this...
Getting started with predictive analytics in DevOps
Data—it’s the new currency. Many years ago, we measured the volume of data we processed in gigabytes; then we quickly moved to terabytes. Due to the influence of the smartphone and mobile devices, our volume of data is rapidly increasing to petabytes. read...
How to use Magit to manage Git projects
Git is an excellent version control tool for managing projects, but it can be hard for novices to learn. It’s difficult to work from the Git command line unless you’re familiar with the flags and options and the appropriate situations to use them. This can be discouraging and cause people to be stuck with very limited usage. read...