Premier League Claims Victories with Multi-Faceted Anti-Piracy Approach
In many parts of the world, football – or soccer as some prefer to call it – is the number one spectator sport. The English Premier League, widely regarded as one of the top competitions, draws hundreds of millions of viewers per year. Many of these pay for access to the matches, but there’s also a massive circuit of unauthorized streams. In recent years the League has worked hard to decrease the availability of...
Google Search Apparently Indexes Over 80 Million Torrent Hashes
Like every general search engine on the web, Google indexes every page it can find. That’s what it’s for, after all. Torrent meta-search engines do things quite differently. These sites are only interested in torrent links found on external sites. This includes Torrentz2, which is without a doubt the most popular torrent meta-search engine on the Internet. The site took over from the original Torrentz site, which after it...
The Solution to Music Piracy in Nigeria is No Joke – Or is It?
Even when one has visited many countries around the world, subtleties of cultural differences can be difficult to grasp. What’s funny or makes sense in one country may draw a blank expression in another, which is why a recent set of stories from Nigeria catch the eye. Music industry group IFPI describes Africa as a whole as an emerging opportunity for business, with digital music services sometimes available alongside mobile...
Getting started with the Linux tac command
The tac command is essentially the cat command, but its purpose is to concatenate files in reverse. Like cat, it has a convenient fallback mode to print to standard output (STDOUT) if no output file is provided, making it one of those commands that are more often used as a lazy pager—like less and more—than the function it is named for. read...
4 to-do list managers for the Linux desktop
Ah, the humble to-do list. When used badly, it becomes a source of stress and a trigger for procrastination. When used well, the to-do list can help you focus on what you need to do, when you need to do it. There are a few ways to keep a to-do list. You can use pen and paper. You can run a command-line to-do list manager. Or, you can use a to-do list on your desktop. read...
