New Wave Of Nintendo Anti-Piracy Complaints Helps Microsoft Too
While most if not all gaming companies have piracy issues to contend with, Nintendo is among the most aggressive when it comes to protecting its intellectual property rights. The company has a multi-pronged strategy that tackles the issue from almost every conceivable direction. When sites create archives of gaming ROMs available for download, Nintendo is happy to sue their operators and when entities are more difficult to pursue with...
BPI Joins RIAA’s Takedown Battle Against YouTube Downloaders
Late last year the RIAA started targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google. Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. The sites in question circumvent YouTube’s rolling cipher, which is a technical protection measure that protects audio and video...
Minicomputers and The Soul of a New Machine
The Command Line Heroes podcast is back, and this season it covers the machines that run all the programming languages I covered last season. As the podcast staff puts it: read...
