Report Claims Quadrigacx Never Held More Than 1,000 BTC
The drama surrounding Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Quadrigacx continues to intensify, with a recent report by Zernoncense claiming that the exchange has no identifiable cold storage reserves and that it has never held more than 1,000 BTC in customer funds. Also Read: Kraken Acquires British Derivatives Platform Crypto Facilities Report Refutes Claims of Quadrigacx Owner’s Widow The report finds numerous assertions made...
BREIN Explains Why It’s Not going After ‘Casual’ Pirates
When it comes to civil anti-piracy enforcement, BREIN is without a doubt one of the best-known players in the industry. Backed by Hollywood and other content industries, the group has been active for more than two decades in the Netherlands. Aside from shutting down sites and going after sellers of pirate streaming boxes, BREIN is also planning to go after BitTorrent users. By using in-house software that automatically gathers...
Kenyan Govt. Protests as National Anthem Hit With YouTube Copyright Complaint
With millions of new videos uploaded every week, YouTube is the world’s most popular platform for user-uploaded content. While the majority of uploaded works cause no issue, copyright holders regularly file strikes or claims against uploaders, complaining that they’ve used their content without permission. As reported on many occasions, this can sometimes prove controversial and today the Kenyan government waded into a...
Steal This Show S04E11: ‘Software Will Eat The World’
This is part one of a two-part interview with @Rabble — activist, technologist, co-founder of Indymedia, and one of the originators of Twitter. We discuss the origins of Twitter in the protest organisation tool TxtMob; Evan’s work developing Indymedia and the early days of tech’s interaction with activism; how social media is continuing to mutate politics, for better and worse; how the sorting algorithms...
Malaysia Blocks 246 Sites to Tackle Pirate Set-Top Box Epidemic
Since their mainstream debut two decades ago, pirate websites have never been particularly inaccessible to the tech-savvy. Today, however, streaming pirate movies and TV shows is simplicity itself, particularly when accessed through specially-configured hardware devices such as Android-style set-top boxes. Anyone comfortable with a smartphone interface is now educated enough to gain access to a mountain of infringing content. As a...