Anti-Piracy Lawyer Offers to Withdraw Twitter Complaint Against Popcorn Time in Exchange for a Settlement
Earlier this month we reported that a popular Popcorn Time fork had its Twitter account suspended over an alleged trademark violation. As it turned out, this was the work of Hawaiian anti-piracy lawyer Kerry Culpepper, who used the “Popcorn Time” trademark as ammunition. This trademark was recently registered by the attorney in name of the Hawaiian company ’42 Ventures.’ When we inquired about the reason for...
Anti-Piracy Outfit Looking For ‘Ethical Hacker’ to Reverse Engineer Pirate Technologies
The existence of many thousands of pirate-focused sites and applications available on the Internet today shows that there’s no shortage of skilled individuals interested in the piracy scene. On the other hand, there’s also no shortage of copyright holders and anti-piracy groups keen to disrupt their activities using any means at their disposal. At least on the ‘battlefield’, these opposing parties are not...
DevOps vs. Agile: Do they have anything in common?
The topic of DevOps vs. Agile is almost like debating iPhone vs. Android—everyone has an opinion, and emotions can become heated, especially if people disagree. After writing DevOps v. Agile: What’s the difference? and reading the comments on the article, I wanted to add some more thoughts—including how some of my thinking has changed on the topic. read...
Comparing subscription, pay-per-bug, and consulting software business models
At FOSS Backstage this year, I hosted a discussion on open source models and shared why I think subscriptions are a great way to support open source products. Picking a business model The company I co-founded, Nextcloud, only offers its services to customers on a (per user) subscription model. Some customers ask us during the sales conversation why they cannot just get access to our engineers on an hourly basis as they get from...
How to secure your Linux email services with SSL/TLS
Traditionally, email services send data in an unprotected way—whether you are sending emails via SMTP or receiving them via IMAP or POP, the defaults are in cleartext. With more online applications enforcing encryption and the general consensus to protect your data, it’s best to secure your email services with a Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) security certificate. read...
