Nintendo Sues RomUniverse for Mass Copyright Infringement
Last year Nintendo made headlines worldwide when it filed a lawsuit against the popular ROM sites LoveROMS.com and LoveRETRO.co. The legal action effectively shut the sites down with many other platorms voluntarily following suit. Not all game pirate sites were shaken up by the legal action though. RomUniverse, a site that’s been around for a decade, saw its visitor numbers rise and announced that it would continue to offer...
Popular Torrent Site MKVCage Faces Lawsuit and Goes Offline
A group of movie companies has been very active in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii over the past several months. Various copyright infringement lawsuits and DMCA subpoenas were filed against prominent players in the piracy ecosystem, ranging from Popcorn Time through YTS and Showbox. Today, we can add another target to the growing list, the popular torrent uploader/group MKVCage. MKVCage uploads its encodes across...
Nintendo Wins Blocking Injunction Against Four Piracy-Enabling Sites
Every manufacturer of mass-market video gaming consoles has faced the possibility of piracy on their platforms. The tools to prevent piracy usually come as a two-man team of hardware and software trickery (technological protection measures) but these are often defeated, later if not sooner. Nintendo, in particular, has been struggling with piracy on its Switch console, facilitated by circumvention tools (particularly SX Pro and SX OS)...
How to fix common pitfalls with the Python ORM tool SQLAlchemy
Object-relational mapping (ORM) makes life easier for application developers, in no small part because it lets you interact with a database in a language you may know (such as Python) instead of raw SQL queries. SQLAlchemy is a Python ORM toolkit that provides access to SQL databases using Python. It is a mature ORM tool that adds the benefit of model relationships, a powerful query construction paradigm, easy serialization, and...
3 ways to handle transient faults for DevOps
In electrical engineering, a transient fault is defined as an error condition that vanishes after the power is disconnected and restored. This is also a workaround many of us unconsciously use when we forcefully power our physical devices off and on when they’re performing poorly or frozen on a blue crash screen filled with gibberish. read...
