Spain’s Lawmakers Plan to Provide Basic Income to Low-Income Residents
Apr13

Spain’s Lawmakers Plan to Provide Basic Income to Low-Income Residents

Spain is preparing to provide universal basic income (UBI) to low-income individuals due to the wrath of the coronavirus, the country’s minister for economic affairs Nadia Calviño recently explained. There’s no set date yet for the UBI program, but Spain’s officials said they plan to “do it as soon as possible, so it can be useful, not just for this extraordinary situation, and that it remains...

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 04/13/20
Apr13

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 04/13/20

This week we have four newcomers in our chart. Bad Boys for Life 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...

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‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer’s Request for a Temporary Prison Release Due to COVID-19 Threat Fails
Apr13

‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer’s Request for a Temporary Prison Release Due to COVID-19 Threat Fails

Last summer, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota sentenced Paul Hansmeier to 14 years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Hansmeier was a key player in the Prenda Law firm, which pursued cases against people who were suspected of downloading pirated porn videos via BitTorrent. This practice by itself is not illegal, but Hansmeier and his associate John Steele entered the criminal realm when they lied to the courts,...

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Judge in eBook.bike Piracy Case Asks Author to Consider a Massively Reduced Damages Claim
Apr13

Judge in eBook.bike Piracy Case Asks Author to Consider a Massively Reduced Damages Claim

Just over a year ago, author John Van Stry filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in a Texas court against former Pirate Party Canada leader Travis McCrea, the operator of eBook download platform eBook.bike. The complaint alleged that McCrea infringed the copyrights of Van Stry by making at least a dozen of his books available for download without a license, along with other titles by prominent authors including Stephen King and J.K....

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9 open source CSS frameworks for frontend web development
Apr13

9 open source CSS frameworks for frontend web development

When most people think about web development, HTML or JavaScript usually come to mind. They usually forget about the technology that has far more impact on the ability to enjoy a website: cascading style sheets (CSS). CSS is both one of the most important and the most often forgotten parts of any webpage, even though it’s one of the three cornerstone technologies of the World Wide Web, according to Wikipedia. read...

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