Court Questions Whether Ebook ‘Pirate’ Site Operator Can Be Sued in Texas
Back in March, Travis McCrea, the former leader of the Pirate Party of Canada, faced mounting opposition against his eBook platform, Ebook.bike. Following in the footsteps of his similar creation TUEBL (The Ultimate eBook Library), Ebook.bike allows users to upload and download eBooks, some of which have turned out to be copyright-infringing. Despite McCrea taking content down following copyright notices, large numbers of authors...
UK Pirate Site Blocking Requests Have Stopped, For Now
Website blocking is without a doubt one of the favorite anti-piracy tools of the entertainment industries. The UK has been a leader on this front. Since 2011, the High Court has ordered ISPs to block access to many popular pirate sites. Over time the number of blocked URLs in the UK has grown steadily to well over 1,000. This includes many popular torrent, streaming, and direct download sites, which remain barred today. We have...
Security scanning your DevOps pipeline
Security is one of the most important considerations for running in any environment, and using open source software is a great way to handle security without going over budget in your corporate environment or for your home setup. It is easy to talk about the concepts of security, but it’s another thing to understand the tools that will get you there. This tutorial explains how to set up security using Jenkins with Anchore. read...
An Ansible reference guide, CI/CD with Ansible Tower and GitHub, and more news
We’re always amazed to find and hear what people are achieving with Ansible. Naturally, we get lots of feedback from customers, but more often we find it is the community who pushes Ansible even further. read...
Save and load Python data with JSON
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. This format is a popular method of storing data in key-value arrangements so it can be parsed easily later. Don’t let the name fool you, though: You can use JSON in Python—not just JavaScript—as an easy way to store data, and this article demonstrates how to get started. First, take a look at this simple JSON snippet: read...
