U.S. Court Denies $28,500 Default Judgment Against Accused Pirate
In recent years, adult entertainment outfit Malibu Media has often been described as a copyright trolling operation. The company, known for its popular “X-Art” brand, has gone after thousands of alleged file-sharers in U.S. courts. Many of its targets settle their cases out of court, but others choose to ignore them. Not responding at all can be quite risky. If a defendant is named in a lawsuit and properly served, the...
What Type of Anti-Piracy Campaign Is More Likely to Work on Infringers?
Over the past couple of decades, campaigns aimed at discouraging people from accessing infringing content online have come in all shapes and sizes. Whether they are effective is still up for debate. It could be argued that since copyright infringement is now easier than ever, with even novices able to access almost any content they like without paying, none of these campaigns have really worked. On the other hand, however, who knows...
Install GNU Emacs on Windows
GNU Emacs is a popular text editor designed for programmers of all sorts. Because it was developed on Unix and is widely used on Linux (and shipped with macOS), people sometimes don’t realize that it’s also available for Microsoft Windows. You don’t need to be an experienced or full-time programmer to make use of Emacs, either. You can download and install Emacs with just a few clicks, and this article shows you how....
Collections signal major shift in Ansible ecosystem, and more Ansible news
Over the eight years since its inception, Ansible has become wildly successful. The core maintainers know that the workload to keep accepting modules has outgrown the model, so there are large changes afoot. If you get time to read only one thing in this edition of Ansible around the web, make it Jeff Geerling’s post on collections. Otherwise, there’s a tasty selection of articles on complex environments and how to...
Using LibreOffice for your open source budgeting tool
Budgets can be intimidating for beginners. It can feel overwhelming to think about money, much less about how to keep track of it. But it’s important to know where your money is coming and going. In this article, I’ll step through a sample budget by explaining the logic behind important money decisions as well as the formulas you need to automate the process. Fortunately, LibreOffice makes it easy for anyone to keep their...
