Bright House Doesn’t Directly Profit From Pirating Subscribers, Court Rules
Last year a group of music industry giants, including Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros, sued Bright House Networks for failing to disconnect pirating subscribers. Bright House is owned by Charter, which was sued in a separate complaint simultaneously. In both cases, the music companies demanded compensation for their alleged losses. The lawsuits, which are part of a broader legal campaign against ISPs, have continued on their own...
Number of Online Pirates in Italy Steady But Research Summary Downplays Big Success Story
For the past several years, market research company Ipsos has carried out an annual study on behalf of local anti-piracy outfit FAPAV. The aim of the work is to measure overall piracy rates in the country, including the number of participants, content consumed, and the number of infringing acts. The manner in which the data is presented this year is interesting since despite there being an impressive success story to be told, FAPAV...
Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 07/13/20
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have six new entries in the list. The American war movie Greyhound is the most downloaded title this week. The film, starring Tom Hanks, was released on Apple...
How I balance features and performance in my Linux terminal
I am a big fan of command-line applications, and I spend a lot of time working in a terminal. Terminal-based applications are, in many cases, faster, more flexible, and more intuitive than their graphical user interface (GUI) counterparts. Having a flexible and powerful terminal with many command-line tools makes me more productive. This is one of the main reasons I moved to Linux several years ago and never looked back. read...
My Linux story: breaking language barriers with open source
My open source journey started rather late in comparison to many of my peers and colleagues. read...