TVAddons Removes Kodi Add-On Tutorial After BT Sport Complaint
After beginning with the obligatory statement that Kodi is an entirely legal platform until people augment it with third-party ‘pirate’ add-ons, not every complaint in this area is straightforward. This week, Kodi add-on resource TVAddons received a relatively unusual complaint about a page on its site that detailed a BT Sport-related add-on called BT Sport Video. According to a cache copy of the page (Google cache)...
MPA’s Piracy Claims Caused Financial Damage, VOD Site Says
Every year the US Trade Representative (USTR) asks interested stakeholders to identify ‘notorious’ foreign piracy markets. The responses that come in list the Pirate Bay’s of this world, but also sites and services that don’t see themselves as pirate markets. The Polish video-on-demand (VOD) platform CDA.pl falls in the latter category. Last year the video service was already branded a pirate site by MPA...
6 signs you might be a Linux user
Linux users are a diverse bunch, but many of us share a few habits. You might not have any of the telltale signs listed in this article, and if you’re a new Linux user, you may not recognize many of them… yet. Here are six signs you might be a Linux user. read...
How to remove duplicate lines from files with awk
Suppose you have a text file and you need to remove all of its duplicate lines. TL;DR To remove the duplicate lines while preserving their order in the file, use: read...
Building trust in the Linux community
I recently listened to an interesting interview on Linux for everyone. Host Jason Evangelho interviewed Christopher Scott, senior premier field engineer (open source) at Microsoft. Christopher is a Linux advocate who has a unique perspective as an avid Linux user who works for Microsoft. read...