Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit
During the 2020 US presidential election campaign, then-President Donald Trump took to Twitter to post an animated video of a speedy train carrying his campaign logo ahead of Joe Biden on a railroad handcar, struggling to keep up. In the background played an unlicensed copy of the 1982 hit ‘Electric Avenue’ by musician Eddy Grant. The British singer-songwriter objected to being associated with Trump and in response, filed a lawsuit in...
Domain Name Registries Dismiss Hollywood’s Piracy Critique
Last week, Hollywood’s Motion Picture Association (MPA) shared its annual overview of “notorious markets” with the US Trade Representative (USTR). This list typically includes examples of pirate sites and services. However, it goes further than that, as third-party intermediaries are called out as well. Notorious Domain Registries? This year, the MPA included five registries connected to the .CH, .IS, .RU, .TO and.TV domains. These...
Diagnose connectivity issues with the Linux ping command
Networked computers are so common these days that most of us take it for granted that a computer on one side of a room can contact one on the other side of the room, much less the other side of the world. When it works as designed, networking is what makes the Internet, the cloud, file shares, media streaming, remote administration, printing, and much more possible. When something goes wrong, it can sometimes be challenging to...
Inspect the capabilities of ELF binaries with this open source tool
If Linux is your primary working environment, then you might be familiar with the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), the main file format used for executables, libraries, core-dumps, and more, on Linux. read more Powered by...