Baidu Cloud Storage Site Ordered to Pay Damages For TV Show Piracy
China’s government is regularly accused of not doing enough to prevent piracy but court records show that there are many copyright cases under consideration. A particularly interesting case that has now reached its conclusion featured Youku Tudou Inc., one of the country’s top online video platforms and Baidu Wangpan (Baidu Web Drive), a cloud-storage service operated by technology giant Baidu. Filed by Youku, the lawsuit...
The Zen of Python: Why timing is everything
Python is always evolving. The Python community has an unending appetite for feature requests but also an unending bias toward the status quo. As Python gets more popular, changes to the language affect more people. The exact timing for when a change happens is often hard, but the Zen of Python offers guidance. read...
Most-read open source news stories of 2019
A great deal happened in the world of open source in 2019. Once upon a time, you would have been hard-pressed to find news about Linux, free software, and open source software outside of a small handful of specialist publications. Today, though, news about open source is everywhere; the online edition of Forbes even has its own Linux columnist. read...
