RapidVideo Agrees to Pay Settlement to ACE, Hands Over Domains
Up until late last year RapidVideo was one of the largest video hosting sites on the Internet, used by millions of people. Like many of its competitors, the platform was often frequented by pirates. As such, it was a thorn in the side of many major entertainment industry companies. For RapidVideo this eventually culminated in a lawsuit filed by two members of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Warner Bros. Entertainment and...
Cloudflare Agrees to Stop Caching Pirate Content in Japan, If Court Declares Sites Illegal
As the largest CDN and DDoS mitigation service on the planet, Cloudflare provides services to millions of websites. A tiny proportion of these sites are on the radars of entertainment and publishing companies since they either directly offer or link to unlicensed copies of copyrighted works. As a result, Cloudflare is under almost continual pressure to cease doing business with these entities. As first reported here on TF in September...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/24/20
This week we have one newcomer in our chart. Frozen 2 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 Rank last...
How to use HomeBank for your open source alternative to Quicken
A while ago, I used Quicken to manage my finances. It’s proprietary software, and year after year, it cost me more and more money for upgrades. Eventually, I realized it isn’t prudent to take away from my budget to help me control my budget. read...
3 eBook readers for the Linux desktop
I usually read eBooks on my phone or with my Kobo eReader. I’ve never been comfortable reading books on larger screens. However, many people regularly read books on their laptops or desktops. If you are one of them (or think you might be), I’d like to introduce you to three eBook readers for the Linux desktop. read...
