ETTV & ETHD Stopped Uploading Torrents But a Comeback is Planned
The piracy ecosystem is more structured than most people assume. While anyone can upload a file online, the most popular content is distributed by a small number of uploaders. ETTV and ETHD are in this top echelon. The groups, which have their roots in the defunct ExtraTorrent site, have shared tens of thousands of videos in recent years. This has resulted in a following of millions of people. In reality, these ‘groups’...
Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials
As of 2019, YouTube was playing host to 31 million channels, with the most popular specializing in music, entertainment and sports. A growing number also dedicate themselves to ‘how-to’ or tutorial videos, which aim to help viewers improve their skills on everything from cookery and car maintenance to more niche pastimes such as ‘life-hacks’ and lock picking. For one YouTuber in Brazil, the decision to help...
An Elasticsearch and Kibana-based dashboard for COVID-19
Looking back to the start of the year, we could never have predicted what would befall our world as a result of COVID-19. Back then, the coronavirus was spreading in China, and while there were warnings of its potential to escalate across the world, few could imagine the tremendous shift it would bring to the status quo. Today, we find ourselves living in a new normal. Working from home has become standard, the global economy is...
Scan your Linux security with Lynis
Have you ever thought about how secure your Linux machine really is? There are numerous Linux distros, each with its own default settings, on which you run dozens of software packages with different version numbers, and numerous services running in the background, which we hardly know or care about. To find the security posture—the overall security status of the software, network, and services running on your Linux...
5 humans review 5 open source video chat tools
Stuck indoors like most of the rest of the world, a group of Opensource.com editors and correspondents—Seth Kenlon, Matt Broberg, Alan Formy-Duval, Jessica Cherry, and Chris Hermansen—decided to use their far-flung locations and variable-quality internet connections to try out several open source video-conferencing solutions. read...
