The Pirate Bay: Swedish Court Throws Out Injunction That Wrongly Targeted ISP
With The Pirate Bay bearing all the hallmarks of an unstoppable force, early this month two movie companies decided on legal action to get closer to the site’s operators. Svensk Filmindustri and Nordisk Film, supported by anti-piracy partner Rights Alliance, approached Cloudflare for information on where The Pirate Bay was hosted. Cloudflare responded with an IP address which according to the movie companies belonged to Swedish...
‘Academic’ Torrent Client Offers a Safe Haven for Pirate Sites
The Tribler client has been around for almost 15 years. During that time it has developed into a truly decentralized BitTorrent client. Unlike other torrent software, the project is managed by a group of researchers who have their main lab at the Delft University of Technology. Impossible to Shut Down From the early days, project leader Professor Johan Pouwelse strived to create a file-sharing tool that would be impossible to censor...
41% of Young Danes Illegally Stream or Download Digital Content
Danish consumption of legal streaming services is currently on the rise having seen increased demand during the coronavirus pandemic. According to a new study from Denmark’s Chamber of Commerce, however, pirate consumption in the previous 12 months remained high. The data for the study was collected in February 2020 among 2,000 citizens aged 18 and above. All were assured of their anonymity in an effort to obtain the most...
Tips for switching your team to a SharePoint open source alternative
MediaWiki is many IT professionals’ first exposure to wikis. By virtue of being the platform behind Wikipedia, MediaWiki’s familiarity makes it a compelling open source alternative to proprietary technology like Atlassian Confluence, which is common with developers, and SharePoint, the default corporate collaboration platform. read...
A surprising way to do data science with Node.js
JavaScript (also known as JS) is the lingua franca of the web, as it is supported by all the major web browsers—the other languages that run in browsers are transpiled (or translated) to JavaScript. read...
