Replacing DVDs With Online Screeners Won’t Stop Pirates
Last week the news broke that the Emmys will make the switch from physical DVD-screeners to online streaming screeners in 2020. This transition comes with a lot of benefits. For one, it’s much cheaper for companies to put movies on an online screening platform than to manufacture and ship hundreds of thousands of DVDs. Another advantage, according to some industry insiders, is that it’s easier to keep online screeners...
Copyright Trolling in Sweden Grows Massively Putting US Efforts in the Shade
With millions of Internet users sharing copyrighted content every day, some entertainment companies have embarked on campaigns to shakedown alleged infringers with settlement demands. The process is broadly the same wherever it takes place in the world, with anti-piracy outfits sitting in BitTorrent swarms and logging the IP addresses of connections alleged to have downloaded and/or shared content without permission. This evidence is...
Using more to view text files at the Linux command line
There are a number of utilities that enable you to view text files when you’re at the command line. One of them is more. more is similar to another tool I wrote about called less. The main difference is that more only allows you to move forward in a file. read...
Get started with Org mode without Emacs
There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year’s resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an “out with the old, in with the new” attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s the 16th of my...
13 books for picking up new tech in 2019
If you want to boost your tech skills and knowledge in 2019, the books on this list can help you achieve your goals. If nothing else, they’ll give you a lot to think about as you chart your future. read...
