Seth King Re-Print: Protocol, Networks, Law, and Anarchism
I imagine long ago there was a time when neither verbal nor written language existed for humans. Hand gestures and other physical cues were as good as our ancestors had it. Perhaps the sign for thirsty meant pinching one’s own tongue. Or the sign for hungry meant stuffing one’s hand in one’s own mouth. **The following article is an opinion piece published on July 2, 2013, and written by Seth King. “Protocol,...
Maduro Plans to Airdrop Petro to Municipal Leaders and Eligible Citizens
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro wants the nation state-issued cryptocurrency, petro (PTR) to have the same usability properties as a physical currency. On December 13, Maduro explained on national television that the Superintendence of Crypto-Assets and Related Activities (Sunacrip) will be airdropping 0.5 PTR ($30) next week to eligible citizens who register with the Petro App. Also read: North Korea Plans to Launch...
French Anti-Piracy Law Decreased Music Consumption Variety, Research Suggests
Two decades ago, the music industry was presented with an unprecedented threat. Napster made it possible for the public at large to share tracks with people they didn’t have to meet in person. While sharing was already commonplace on bulletin boards and IRC, Napster opened it up to an audience of millions. In the years that followed, torrent sites, download portals, and other pirate services only made things worse. To counter...
Sky on a Mission to Purge Hundreds of Pirate IPTV Sites From Google
When a massive police operation in Italy took down IPTV management outfit Xtream-Codes in September 2019, a large proportion of the pirate market was thrown into turmoil. According to figures obtained by TorrentFreak from network equipment company Sandvine, overall pirate streaming traffic dropped by 50%. But three months is an awfully long time on the Internet and today the market seems to have largely recovered, with providers and...
What's your favorite Linux package manager?
Package managers are an important part of working with modern Linux distributions. In the early days of Linux, life was more complicated. If you wanted to install a piece of software, you had to download a file (or files) and then configure the software to run on your particular system. This didn’t make it very easy to install software. read...
