Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 04/01/19
This week we have four newcomers in our chart. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 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...
Canadian ISPs: Standardize Copyright Notices, Fine & Defeat Trolls
Internet users who download and share copyrighted content are prone to being tracked. If a copyright owner or its agents see such transfers, it’s possible they’ll follow this up to prevent further infringement, as is their right under the law in most major jurisdictions. In Canada this is also the case. Under the country’s ‘notice-and-notice‘ regime, copyright holders are granted permission to send...
French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
By offering free access to millions of ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is often described as “The Pirate Bay of Science”. The site is used by researchers from all over the world, to access papers they otherwise have a hard time accessing. Academic publishers are not happy with the service. They see the site as a threat to their multi-billion dollar businesses and have tried to shut it down through several...
Build and host a website with Git
Git is one of those rare applications that has managed to encapsulate so much of modern computing into one program that it ends up serving as the computational engine for many other applications. While it’s best-known for tracking source code changes in software development, it has many other uses that can make your life easier and more organized. In this series leading up to Git’s 14th anniversary on April 7, we’ll...
How to create a filesystem on a Linux partition or logical volume
In computing, a filesystem controls how data is stored and retrieved and helps organize the files on the storage media. Without a filesystem, information in storage would be one large block of data, and you couldn’t tell where one piece of information stopped and the next began. A filesystem helps manage all of this by providing names to files that store data and maintaining a table of files and directories—along with...
