Op-ed: Tokenized Securities Provide Liquidity
The following opinion piece on token-as-securities was written by Benjamin Pirus, a crypto trader who has written many articles for different ICOs, crypto news outlets, and clients. 2017 was a special year in many ways. Not often in life are there opportunities to invest in an asset and see a profit increase of 1000% (or higher) in the span of a few days. Yet, this was common on and off for much of 2017 in the cryptocurrency...
Pirate IPTV Investigation Leads to Two Arrests in the UK
Illegal IPTV services can be found all over the world but if recent investigations are an accurate barometer, several countries in the European Union are hotter locations than most. While Spain, Bulgaria and the Netherlands have all seen raids or arrests, it is the UK that keeps featuring regularly in IPTV investigations. This week is no exception. Following an investigation and referral by the Federation Against Copyright Theft, two...
ACE Scores Legal Victory and Wins $25m Piracy Damages From Tickbox
Last October, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) filed a lawsuit against the Georgia-based company Tickbox TV, a seller of Kodi-powered set-top boxes that stream a variety of popular media. ACE sees these devices as nothing more than pirate tools and earlier this year it found the court on its side. In January, a California federal court issued a preliminary injunction, ordering Tickbox to keep pirate addons out of...
More Than 35,000 ‘Pirates’ Targeted in Swedish Lawsuits This Year
Roughly a decade ago, Sweden was considered a safe haven for pirates. The country is the home of the Pirate Bay, the birthing ground of the Pirate Party, and a place where for many citizens file-sharing was second nature. Today this is no longer the case. The Scandinavian country famously prosecuted the Pirate Bay’s founders and lawsuits targeting individual BitTorrent users are no longer an exception. The ‘copyright...
How to build rpm packages
I have used rpm-based package managers to install software on Red Hat and Fedora Linux since I started using Linux more than 20 years ago. I have used the rpm program itself, yum, and DNF, which is a close descendant of yum, to install and update packages on my Linux hosts. The yum and DNF tools are wrappers around the rpm utility that provide additional functionality, such as the ability to find and install package dependencies. read...
