‘Copyright Troll’ Bypasses Federal Court To Get ‘Cheap’ Piracy Settlements
Earlier this week we reported on a notable finding. For some reason, the two most active copyright litigants in the US had stopped filing new lawsuits in federal courts. Instead of seeing hundreds of new cases each month targeting alleged BitTorrent pirates, there were none. While the reason for this hiatus is unknown, we can now confirm that at least one of the companies hasn’t halted its efforts at all. Instead, it changed the...
Fake: DMCA Notice Targeting Apple Jailbreaks on Reddit Was Fraudulent
Earlier this week, black clouds began to form over the passionate iOS jailbreaking community. Tolerated by Apple through gritted teeth due to legal protection under the DMCA, the company took the unusual step of sending a DMCA notice targeting a developer’s tweet containing an encryption key. While that tweet was later restored, the takedown came as a complete surprise and the knock-on effect from this unsettling act would set...
Get started with Lumina for your Linux desktop
For a good number of years, there was a desktop operating system (OS) based on FreeBSD called PC-BSD. It was intended as an OS for general use, which was noteworthy because BSD development mostly focuses on servers. For most of its life, PC-BSD shipped with the KDE desktop by default, but the more KDE came to depend on Linux-specific technology, the more PC-BSD migrated away from it. read...
Annual release cycle for Python, new Python Software Foundation fellows from Africa, and more updates
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a nonprofit organization behind the Python programming language. I am fortunate to be a PSF Fellow (honorable member for life,) a Python core developer, and the liaison between my company, Red Hat, and the PSF. Part of that liaison work is providing updates on what’s happening in the Python community. Here’s a look at what we have going on in December. read...
