EU: 51% of Young People Pirated Nothing During the Last Year
The EU Intellectual Property Office has published its latest Intellectual Property and Youth Scoreboard Study. Its stated aim is to better understand which drivers and barriers are the strongest among 15 to 24-year-olds when obtaining digital content online or purchasing physical goods, both legally and illegally. In line with the previous study published in 2016, music remains the most popular content among young people. An...
Criminal Pirate Bay Investigation Closed After Statute of Limitations Expired
On December 9, 2014, the file-sharing world was in turmoil. Swedish police raided the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof datacenter in Stockholm, and confiscated dozens of servers. The raid caused downtime at many popular torrent sites including The Pirate Bay. While a TPB insider later denied that its servers were taken, it remained offline for nearly two months. After the raid, it became clear that The Pirate Bay was indeed the main...
Why you don't have to be afraid of Kubernetes
It was fun to work at a large web property in the late 1990s and early 2000s. My experience takes me back to American Greetings Interactive, where on Valentine’s Day, we had one of the top 10 sites on the internet (measured by web traffic). We delivered e-cards for AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, and others, as well as providing e-cards for partners like MSN and AOL. read...
4 Python tools for getting started with astronomy
NumFOCUS is a nonprofit charity that supports amazing open source toolkits for scientific computing and data science. As part of the effort to connect Opensource.com readers with the NumFOCUS community, we are republishing some of the most popular articles from our blog. To learn more about our mission and programs, please visit numfocus.org. read...
Advance your awk skills with two easy tutorials
Awk is one of the oldest tools in the Unix and Linux user’s toolbox. Created in the 1970s by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the A, W, and K of the tool’s name), awk was created for complex processing of text streams. It is a companion tool to sed, the stream editor, which is designed for line-by-line processing of text files. Awk allows more complex structured programs and is a complete programming...
