US Supreme Court Petitioned to Fix Repeat Infringer ‘DMCA Disarray’
The DMCA’s “repeat infringer” issue is a hot topic in US courts, leading to much uncertainty among various Internet services. Under the DMCA, companies are required to implement a reasonable policy to deal with frequent offenders. This applies to residential ISPs but also to websites that host user-uploaded content, such as video and image hosting platforms. Services that fail to implement a repeat infringer policy...
Steal This Show S04E04: ‘Solarpunk Social’, with Scuttlebutt
In this episode we meet Zenna, Andre and Zack from Scuttlebutt, a P2P-based social ‘network of networks’ based around a BitTorrent-like distribution technology. After figuring out what Scuttlebutt is (and is not) we discuss: the roots of Scuttlebutt in New Zealand, the system’s politically anarchist/libertarian ethos, how Scuttlebutt survived (or shrugged off) a right-wing deluge; and how SSB’s technical...
Annual computer graphics conference encourages use of open source
It’s been a few years since I last attended the annual SIGGRAPH Conference. If you’re not familiar with SIGGRAPH, it’s a special interest group within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that focuses on computer graphics. It holds a North American conference every year, usually on the western side of the continent. This year it was in Vancouver, Canada. read...
Redis Labs changes license, Valve releases new Steam Play beta version, and more news
In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Redis Labs’ licensing woes, open source profiting from the cloud, making Windows games easier to run on Linux, and more. read...
