PR: Plan Flash – Decentralized Data Processing
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. Data processing is indispensable everywhere and all the time in modern life. The daily services we use every day, such as face recognition, voice assistant, text recognition, automatic...
Vader Streams Was Shut Down By ACE, Must Pay $10m Damages
There are several large IPTV providers with brands that are well known across the unlicensed industry. One of those was Vader, otherwise known as Vader Streams, or just Vaders. Notable for its Darth Vader logo, the platform served large numbers of direct customers and subscription re-sellers with at least 1,300 TV channels and a library of VOD content running close to 3,000 titles. This May, however, something went seriously wrong....
Cox Asks Court to Sanction Labels Over Destroyed Tracking Evidence
Last year, Cox ended its piracy liability lawsuit with music company BMG, agreeing to a “substantial settlement.” The ISP is now in the clear, however, Cox is still caught up in another lawsuit filed by a group of major music companies, all members of the RIAA. The music outfits, including Capitol Records, Warner Bros, and Sony Music, argue that Cox categorically failed to terminate repeat copyright infringers and that the...
FACT Confirms Premier League Anti-Piracy Action Against IPTV Suppliers
Last month, the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) said it had targeted people involved in the supply of ‘pirate’ IPTV subscriptions and the sale of modified set-top boxes. Its ‘disruption team’ reported working with GAIN (Government Agency Intelligence Network) and the Federation Against Copyright Theft, targeting people in Wrexham and Blackburn. It now transpires that a broader operation took...
Build a distributed NoSQL database with Apache Cassandra
Recently, I got a rush request to get a three-node Apache Cassandra cluster with a replication factor of two working for a development job. I had little idea what that meant but needed to figure it out quickly—a typical day in a sysadmin’s job. Here’s how to set up a basic three-node Cassandra cluster from scratch with some extra bits for replication and future node expansion. read...
