Search Engines Given “Six Hours” to Delete Pirate Links Under New Law
Copyright holders who want unlicensed copies of their material removed from online platforms are able to file requests under various laws in the United States and EU, for example. Search engines such as Google also comply with such requests to remove links from their indexes, often doing so quickly, in many cases just a matter of hours. In Russia, however, removing links from search engines has proven problematic until a war of words...
Pirate Bay Registrations Remain Closed After Three Months
When The Pirate Bay launched in the second half of 2003, it set out to be the bastion of uncensored information. The site categorically rejects takedown requests from copyright holders and allows anyone to upload almost anything. During its sixteen years of operation, The Pirate Bay has always been free to use and open to the public at large. Those who wanted to share files only had to register an account, which was easy enough....
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 09/02/19
This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Dark Phoenix 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...
The birth of the Bash shell
Shell scripting is an essential discipline for anyone in a sysadmin type of role, and the predominant shell in which people write scripts today is Bash. Bash comes as default on nearly all Linux distributions and modern MacOS versions and is slated to be a native part of Windows Terminal soon enough. Bash, you could say, is everywhere. read...
5 open source speed-reading applications
English essayist and politician Joseph Addison once said, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Today, most (if not all) of us are training our brains by reading text on computer monitors, television screens, mobile devices, street signs, newspapers, magazines, and papers at work or school. read...
