UK Govt. Says Police Anti-Piracy Unit Will Be Funded Beyond June 2019
First announced in the summer of 2013, the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) quickly declared its mission to tackle IP crime both at home and overseas. In the more than five years since, PIPCU has tackled all kinds of infringement, closely aligning itself with the needs of the music, movie, and publishing industries. As a result, the unit has often been in the headlines tackling torrent and streaming...
Pirate Streaming Site Flixtor Rises From The Ashes
By offering access to high quality movies and TV-shows, streaming site Flixtor.to has become the go-to site for many pirates. Everything went relatively smoothly until Last November, when the popular site suddenly disappeared from the web. Initially, it was unknown what caused the downtime but after a week the Flixtor team announced that the site had been taken out by an unexplained catastrophe. This was a major disappointment to the...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 01/07/19
This week we have three newcomers in our chart. The Vanishing 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...
Hacking math education with Python
Mathematics instruction has a bad reputation, especially with people (like me) who’ve had trouble with the traditional approach, which emphasizes rote memorization and theory that seems far removed from students’ real world. While teaching a student who was baffled by his math lessons, Peter Farrell, a Python developer and mathematics teacher, decided to try using Python to teach the boy the math concepts he was having...
