Operation Dark Stream: Police in Portugal Arrest 9 For IPTV Piracy
Jul19

Operation Dark Stream: Police in Portugal Arrest 9 For IPTV Piracy

Entertainment industry companies, anti-piracy partners and law enforcement groups are continuing their efforts to reduce the availability of pirate IPTV services worldwide. This has now extended to the island of Portugal, where law enforcement agencies have carried out a rare crackdown on a locally significant operation accused of profiting from piracy. Operation Dark Stream According to the Polícia Judiciária (Judicial Police), the...

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Developer on Twitch Creates Neat Tool to Prevent DMCA Notices
Jul19

Developer on Twitch Creates Neat Tool to Prevent DMCA Notices

Last summer, chaos urupted on Twitch when users were suddenly bombarded with copyright infringement notices for content uploaded during 2017 and 2019. That initial batch was the work of the RIAA and in October 2020 the problems were back again when the music industry group fired off a second wave of complaints. In May, Twitch sent out an email noting that it had received another batch of DMCA takedown notices from music publishers,...

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Linux package managers: dnf vs apt
Jul19

Linux package managers: dnf vs apt

There are many ways to get applications onto a Linux system. Some, like Flatpak and containers, are new. Others, like DEB and RPM, are classic formats that have withstood the test of time. read more Powered by...

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Run Python applications in virtual environments
Jul19

Run Python applications in virtual environments

If you use Python, you probably install a lot of Python applications. Some are tools you just want to try out. Others are tried and true applications you use every day, so you install them on every computer you use. In either situation, it can be useful to run your Python applications in virtual environments to keep them and their dependencies separate from one another to avoid versioning conflicts and to keep them from the rest of...

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