Police: Pirate IPTV Raids Shut Down “80 Percent” of Illegal Transmissions in Italy
Italy’s love of the pirate streaming world is well documented and authorities there have placed themselves at the forefront of high-profile enforcement actions. From the 2019 closure of Xtream-Codes, a service that still protests its innocence, through to several other major shutdowns, Italian police are determined to reduce the use of illegal set-top boxes, known locally as “pezzotto”. New Operation Claims To Be One of the Most...
YouTube’s Takedown Numbers are a Mystery, But Content-ID is a ‘Cash Cow’
Earlier this year we reported that Google had processed the five billionth DMCA takedown request for its search engine, a massive number. These data are conveniently shared through Google’s official transparency report, which is a treasure trove for reporters. For example, it allowed us to monitor the steep increase in notices over the years, as well as the subsequent decline. The data has also helped us spot errors and inaccuracies...
Use open source tools to set up a private VPN
Getting from one place to another over a computer network can be a tricky thing. Aside from knowing the right address and opening the right ports, there’s the question of security. For Linux, SSH is a popular default, and while there’s a lot you can do with SSH it’s still “just” a secure shell (that’s what SSH stands for, in fact.) A broader protocol for encrypted traffic is VPN, which creates a...
Convenient matrices and other improvements Python 3.5 brought us
This is the sixth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.5 was first released in 2015, and even though it has been out for a long time, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three of them. The @ operator The @ operator is unique in Python in that there are no objects in the standard library that implement it! It was added for use in...
