Terrarium TV Dev Says He Could Hand User Info to Authorities
Terrarium TV was one of the most impressive ‘pirate’ apps in recent years. Utilizing video content hosted on file-hosting platforms, it grew to become a serious competitor to apps like Showbox and Popcorn Time. Last week, however, developer NitroXenon announced that the project would be shutting down “It has always been a great pleasure to work on this project. However, it is time to say goodbye. I am going to shut...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 09/17/18
This week we have four newcomers in our chart. Skyscraper is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the articles of the recent weekly movie download charts. This week’s most downloaded movies are: Movie Rank Rank...
U.S. Wants Prison Sentence for Facebook User Who Pirated ‘Deadpool’
While most people use Facebook to share relatively harmless content, some share things they are not supposed to. A pirated copy of Deadpool, for example. This is what now 22-year-old Trevon Franklin from Fresno, California, did early 2016. Just a week after the first installment of the box-office hit premiered in theaters, he shared a pirated copy of the movie on the social network. To be clear, Franklin wasn’t the person who...
4 scanning tools for the Linux desktop
While the paperless world isn’t here quite yet, more and more people are getting rid of paper by scanning documents and photos. Having a scanner isn’t enough to do the deed, though. You need software to drive that scanner. But the catch is many scanner makers don’t have Linux versions of the software they bundle with their devices. For the most part, that doesn’t matter. Why? Because there are good scanning...
How gaming turned me into a coder
I think the first word I learned to type fast—and I mean really fast—was “fireball.” Like most of us, I started my typing career with a “hunt-and-peck” technique, using my index fingers and keeping my eyes focused on the keyboard to find letters as I needed them. It’s not a technique that allows you to read and write at the same time; you might call it half-duplex. It was okay for typing cd...
