‘Pirate’ iTunes Download Site and Three Others Targeted By the RIAA
Despite the fact that most modern music is readily available for free on ad-supported platforms such as YouTube and Spotify, a thriving market for pirated content remains. While streaming is convenient and mostly cheap, part of the lure of pirate sites is that music can be downloaded to users’ machines, to be played back whenever they like, with or without an Internet connection and associated costs. The threat from unlicensed...
There’s Something Fishy Going on with Australia’s Piracy Numbers
Australia’s latest online copyright infringement report, released by the Department of Communications in December, suggested that piracy is falling. The data pointed out that there’s been a steady decrease in the number of people who consume music, movies, and TV shows illegally. This follows a trend that was revealed in earlier reports. According to the Government, a mere 16% of the population can be classified as...
Serious Copyright Infringers Face Up to Six Years in Prison Under New Swedish Law
For more than a decade, rightsholders and anti-piracy groups in Sweden have criticized the scale of the penalties available for courts to hand down in cases of serious copyright infringement. Perhaps the most famous case, involving the people behind The Pirate Bay, ended with defendants Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström originally receiving eight, ten and four months in prison. As things stand the absolute maximum...
How I migrated from a Mac Mini to a Raspberry Pi
Some time ago, I decided to move my computing environment from a Mac Mini PowerPC to a Raspberry Pi Model 2. This article describes my reasons for doing so and how I did it. While it is quite technical in places, if you’re considering switching from an existing system to something decidedly lean and mean, there are things that you need to know before making that leap. There are lots of links to click as well, which will...
