Russian Operator of YouTube Rippers Must Face Piracy Claims in US Court
The major record labels believe that YouTube rippers are the most significant piracy threat on the Internet. These sites, which can be used for a variety of purposes, are used by some to convert free YouTube videos into MP3s. The Legal Battle Thus Far Three years ago a group of prominent music companies took the operator of two of the largest YouTube rippers to court. The labels, including Universal, Warner Bros, and Sony, accused...
Pirate Streaming Site Revenue Down, Despite Audience Growth & Innovation
In 2019, BREIN, the MPA and ACE teamed up to take down Moonwalk, a pirate CDN system that provided back-end services to large numbers of pirate streaming sites. Moonwalk’s business model was of particular interest since, in addition to providing back-end services, it also supplied huge volumes of pirated content, including more than 26,000 movies and 10,000 TV shows to around 80% of Russian streaming sites. In the wake of the...
Partition a drive on Linux with GNU Parted
In the 21st century, we tend to take data storage for granted. We have lots of it, it’s relatively affordable, and there are many different types of storage available. No matter how much cloud storage space you’re given for free, there’s nothing quite like having a physical hard drive for your really important (or really big, when you live on a slow network) data. However, few hard drives are sold right off the...
Find what changed in a Git commit
If you use Git every day, you probably make a lot of commits. If you’re using Git every day in a project with other people, it’s safe to assume that everyone is making lots of commits. Every day. And this means you’re aware of how disorienting a Git log can become, with a seemingly eternal scroll of changes and no sign of what’s been changed. So how do you find out what file changed in a specific commit?...
Use awk to calculate letter frequency
I recently started writing a game where you build words using letter tiles. To create the game, I needed to know the frequency of letters across regular words in the English language, so I could present a useful set of letter tiles. Letter frequency is discussed in various places, including on Wikipedia, but I wanted to calculate the letter frequency myself. read more Powered by...
