Bitcoin Gold Whale Allegedly Controls Half the BTG Supply
According to a recent study, bitcoin gold (BTG) market prices are being manipulated by a single whale who holds a significant portion of the bitcoin gold in circulation. The Bitcoin Gold network was recently hit with a 51% attack that caused two blockchain reorganizations. The team of BTG developers introduced a new soft fork concept called a “Cross-Chain Block Notarization Protocol” (CCBN) in order to thwart any 51%...
SafeKodi: Researchers Help Kodi Users to Spot Malicious Addons
Kodi is widely known as a very convenient media player. While the open-source software is content-neutral, some third-party addons use it to offer pirated content. In recent years rightsholders and anti-piracy organizations have worked hard to target copyright infringing addons. This is done through enforcement actions, but also through scare tactics. On numerous occasions, Kodi addons have been associated with malware and other...
Piracy Trial Between Record Labels and ISP Grande Postponed
The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications. Last December, one case resulted in a guilty verdict against Cox. Following a jury trial, the company was ordered to pay...
Plex Slammed By Huge Copyright Coalition For Not Policing Pirates
In days gone by, living rooms around the world could be found stacked with video cassette tapes full of films and TV shows. Some bought, others recorded at home, these copies would need to be waded through, to find whatever content the owner fancied watching that day. With the rise of digital technology, however, such physical collections have largely disappeared, replaced by copies that occupy virtually zero space, with thousands of...
Compose music as code using Sonic Pi
Maybe you’re like me, and you learned a musical instrument when you were in school. For me, it was the piano, and later, the viola. However, I’ve always held that, as my childhood interests shifted towards computers and coding, I subsequently neglected my music practice. I do wonder what I would have done if I’d had something like Sonic Pi when I was younger. Sonic Pi is an open source program that lets you compose...