RIAA Complaint Shuts Down YouTube-Ripper MP3Fiber
Every week, millions of Internet users get their musical fix from service like Spotify and iTunes. However, a growing number see YouTube as their preferred content platform. In theory, labels and artists should get paid for every licensed stream accessed on YouTube but there are ways to disrupt that business model. So-called ‘YouTube-ripping’ services allow people to extract MP3 audio files from YouTube videos and store...
No Ban for ‘Stealing’ and ‘Theft’ Terms During Cox’s Piracy Liability Trial
Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the $25 million piracy liability verdict against Internet provider Cox. The panel of three judges concluded that the district court made an error in its jury instruction and ordered a new trial. This means that music publisher BMG Rights Management and Cox will go head to head again in a new trial, which starts next week. Both parties are working on the final...
Court Halts ‘GTA V’ Cheat Maker Over Copyright Claim
Over the past year there has been a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against alleged cheaters or cheat makers. Fortnite’s developers have launched a few cases in US courts, and so has Take-Two Interactive Software, the company behind ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ (GTA V). The latter managed to score a success last week. The court granted its requested preliminary injunction, ordering David Zipperer to stop working on...
A checklist for submitting your first Linux kernel patch
One of the biggest—and the fastest moving—open source projects, the Linux kernel, is composed of about 53,600 files and nearly 20-million lines of code. With more than 15,600 programmers contributing to the project worldwide, the Linux kernel follows a maintainer model for collaboration. read...
Teaching kids Linux at summer camp
As the late, great mathematician, computer scientist, and educator Seymour Papert once said, “I am convinced that the best learning takes place where the learner takes charge.” Unfortunately, most schools stifle children’s natural curiosity and creativity, locking down technology and reducing students to consumers of content they have no hand in creating. read...
