Court Orders YouTube Rippers to Log and Share Data with Record Labels
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. FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com Lawsuit Three years ago a group of prominent music companies took two of the largest YouTube rippers to court. The labels, including Universal, Warner Bros, and Sony, accused FLVTO.biz,...
High Court Grants Default Judgment in Bitcoin.org Copyright Infringement Case
It is widely accepted that the person (or persons) who developed bitcoin did so under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The big question is what real-life identity or identities lie behind this presumed pseudonym. Over the years, several people have been named in the press as likely candidates, either following investigations, apparent confessions, or a combination of both. In 2015, Australian computer scientist Craig Wright was named by...
9 reasons I love to use the Qt Creator IDE
Qt Creator is the Qt framework’s default integrated development environment (IDE) and hence the glue between Qt’s rich set of libraries and the user. In addition to its basic features such as intelligent code completion, debugging, and project administration, Qt Creator offers a lot of nice features that make software development easier. In this article, I will highlight some of my favorite Qt Creator features. read more...
Parse JSON configuration files with Groovy
Applications typically include some type of default or “out-of-the-box” state or configuration, as well as some way for users to customize that configuration for their needs. read more Powered by...
How a college student founded a free and open source operating system
Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994. Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim. Don Watkins: What...
