US Congress Starts Review on Possible Modernization of the DMCA
When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was introduced in 1998, few people could of imagined the online developments of the next two decades. Nevertheless, the law remains in place today and at times, according to some, struggles to keep up with whatever technology throws at it. The DMCA is a complex beast but some of its key goals are to outlaw the production and distribution of tools and services designed to circumvent DRM...
Rightsholders Asked Google to Remove Five Million ThePirateBay.org URLs
The Pirate Bay is widely known for its refusal to remove content based on copyright infringement claims. Those who tried in the past found themselves mocked instead. This means that copyright holders have to find other ways to minimize the site’s impact. That includes sending takedown requests to search engines, to lower the site’s presence there. Most of these takedown notices are sent to Google, which receives requests...
Why developers like to code at night
If you ask most developers when they prefer to work, many will say their most productive hours are at night. This may be especially true for open source contributors who are contributing to projects outside of their day job (though hopefully within healthy limits to avoid burnout). Some like to start in the evening and work till the early hours while others get up super early—say, 4 a.m.—to get most of the programming work...
Manage complex Git workspaces with Great Teeming Workspaces
Great Teeming Workspaces (GTWS) is a complex workspace management package for Git that makes it easy to have development environments for different projects and different versions of a project. read...
Introducing our new Lua cheat sheet
Lua is a minimalistic, lightweight language implemented as a C library. It’s fast and simple to learn, efficient to run, embeddable, and tiny (its source code download is under 500 KB, and it’s just over 1MB compiled). You can use Lua to create an API for your application or as a scripting language, for quick prototyping, or as the foundation of your software project. read...
