Man Who Sold £400K of Pirate IPTV Subscriptions Handed Suspended Sentence
For years, downloading movies and TV shows has been enough for many online pirates but the broad availability of illicit live streaming services is now a huge draw. No longer limited to watching after-the-fact recorded content, streaming websites and IPTV services now offer packages that compete and even out-do traditional cable and satellite providers, with the added bonus of being delivered at almost pocket-money prices. While...
MPA Wants Enhanced Border Enforcement Against Pirate Streaming Boxes
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is part of Homeland Security, regularly seizes copyright infringing goods. In addition, it also targets devices that circumvent copyright protection measures, which violate the DMCA. These can include Blu-ray rippers or mod-chips, for example. In recent years the number of DMCA-related seizures has been relatively low. In 2016, only 70 items were confiscated. While this grew to 297 seized...
Mega Now Stores 63.8 Billion Files, Has Suspended 78,000 Users For Copyright Infringement
From a standing start in January 2013, file-hosting platform Mega has gone from strength to strength. Founded by Kim Dotcom in response to the Megaupload takedown of 2012, Mega has since parted ways with the entrepreneur but its growth has continued in his wake. According to figures published by Mega, at the end of the final quarter of 2013 the cloud storage company was hosting around 0.6 billion files. In 2014, that had leaped to 3.6...
Why Vim fans love the Herbstluftwm Linux window manager
Everybody loves Vim (aside from Dvorak and Emacs users). Vim is so popular that there are entire web browsers dedicated to navigating the web with Vim keybindings, a Vim mode in the wildly popular Zsh terminal emulator, and even a text editor. read...
4 ways to volunteer this holiday season
Social impact happens when leaders deploy individuals and resources to make positive change, but many social efforts are lacking technology resources that are up to the task of serving these change-makers. However, there are organizations helping to accelerate tech for good by connecting developers who want to make a change with communities and nonprofits who desperately need better technology. These organizations often serve specific...
