Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Nationwide
New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time. Powered by...
ACE/MPA Target Pirate Sites Pulling in 1.3 Billion Visits Per Year, Including EZTV
Global entertainment coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment is engaged in perhaps one of the most far-reaching anti-piracy operations the internet has ever seen. The group, which has the key Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon and dozens of major content creators as members, has carried out many highly-publicized takedowns. Streaming platforms, IPTV providers, file-hosting platforms and torrent-related entities have all...
Leaseweb Must Share Personal Details of ‘Pirating’ Customers With Movie Companies
Hosting providers are generally seen as neutral intermediaries, but some copyright holders believe that these companies should bear more responsibility. This isn’t a new idea. Back in 2015, leaked documents from the Motion Picture Association revealed that the Hollywood group had considered taking legal action against a hosting provider. At the time it mentioned Leaseweb as an example. The hosting company already entered the spotlight...
Parse command-line options in Groovy
A recent article provided an introduction to parsing command-line options in Java. Because I really like Groovy, and because Groovy is well suited for scripting, and because it’s fun to compare Java and Groovy solutions, I decided to paraphrase Seth’s article, but using Groovy. read more Powered by...
