Court Rules MusicMonster Stream-Ripping Service Illegal
Stream-ripping tools and services have been around for many years and are currently most closely associated with obtaining tracks from YouTube, Spotify, and Deezer. However, before these undoubtedly more efficient tools came along, users with an aversion to peer-to-peer networks often used software to ‘record’ songs from streaming Internet radio stations. While more cumbersome than straightforward downloading, there are...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 11/26/18
This week we have three newcomers in our chart. The Nun 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 last...
Copyright Law Professor Urges Australia to Repeal Site-Blocking Laws
Three years ago Australia amended its copyright law to pave the way for pirate site blocking injunctions. Section 115a of Australia’s Copyright Act allows rightsholders to request ISP blockades of infringing sites in local courts and has been actively used since. While the entertainment industries have signaled that the legislation is effective, they also see room for improvement. The Australian Government appears to agree, as...
Bio-Linux: A stable, portable scientific research Linux distribution
Bio-Linux was introduced and detailed in a Nature Biotechnology paper in July 2006. The distribution was a group effort by the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK. As the creators and authors point out, the analysis demands of high-throughput “-omic” (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) science has necessitated the development of integrated computing solutions to analyze the resultant mountains of experimental...
What the open source community means to me
Every time I tell my friends about my hobby—which became my career as the executive director at The Document Foundation—I face lots of questions. A worldwide community? Contributors around the globe? An open source community? Can you eat that?! read...
