Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/14/19
Oct15

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/14/19

This week we have three newcomers in our chart. The Lion King is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the articles of the recent weekly movie download charts. This week’s most downloaded movies are: Movie Rank...

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DISH Threatens to Sue IPTV Subscribers Because Suppliers Are Snitching
Oct15

DISH Threatens to Sue IPTV Subscribers Because Suppliers Are Snitching

When they don’t use protection such as VPNs, pirates who use BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer systems are relatively easy to track down. Their IP addresses are publicly viewable meaning that one subpoena later, content companies can obtain their names and addresses from ISPs. The situation is quite different when it comes to users of regular ‘pirate’ IPTV services. Their IP addresses and personal details are usually only...

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MPAA and RIAA’s Megaupload Lawsuits Remain on Hold, Perhaps For Years
Oct15

MPAA and RIAA’s Megaupload Lawsuits Remain on Hold, Perhaps For Years

In 2012, Microsoft first released its operating system Windows 8, Apple came out with the iPhone 5, and Google’s Sergey Brin showed off a Google Glass prototype in the wild. It was also the year when armed police officers swarmed Kim Dotcom’s mansion in a military-style-raid while his hosting service Megaupload was being taken down. It was the beginning of the largest copyright infringement case the U.S. Government had...

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Why I use rxvt as my terminal
Oct15

Why I use rxvt as my terminal

I’m a fan of Konsole and GNOME Terminal, and I use them both regularly. They’re great projects, and they represent modern terminals that meet the needs of users who spend their day in a shell, as well as users who only dip into a Unix shell every now and again. They integrate nicely into a desktop environment, bridging the gap between common GUI tasks and common shell tasks. I use GNOME Terminal at work and Konsole at...

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Formatting NFL data for doing data science with Python
Oct15

Formatting NFL data for doing data science with Python

No matter what medium of content you consume these days (podcasts, articles, tweets, etc.), you’ll probably come across some reference to data. Whether it’s to back up a talking point or put a meta-view on how data is everywhere, data and its analysis are in high demand. As a programmer, I’ve found data science to be more comparable to wizardry than an exact science. I’ve coveted the ability to get ahold of raw...

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