VidAngel Must Pay $62.4 Million for Ripping and ‘Pirating’ Movies
Founded in 2013, Utah-based startup VidAngel entered the video streaming market with a rather innovative business model. The company allowed its users to rent popular movies and TV-shows, with the option to filter out violence, sex, profanity, and other objectionable content. While there was plenty of demand for the service, it operated without permission from the major movie studios. Instead, the company acquired DVDs, which it...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 06/17/19
This week we have three newcomers in our chart. Dumbo 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...
Codethink open sources part of onboarding process
Here at Codethink, we’ve recently focused our energy into enhancing the onboarding process we use for all new starters at the company. As we grow steadily in size, it’s important that we have a well-defined approach to both welcoming new employees into the company, and introducing them to the organization’s culture. read...
Getting started with OpenSSL: Cryptography basics
This article is the first of two on cryptography basics using OpenSSL, a production-grade library and toolkit popular on Linux and other systems. (To install the most recent version of OpenSSL, see here.) OpenSSL utilities are available at the command line, and programs can call functions from the OpenSSL libraries. The sample program for this article is in C, the source language for the OpenSSL libraries. read...
Leading in the Python community
Like many other leaders in the open source software world, Naomi Ceder, board chair of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), took a non-traditional path into the Python world. As the title of her 2017 keynote at PyCon España explains, she came for the language and stayed for the community. read...
