Report: US Pirate IPTV Industry is Worth $1 Billion, So Who’s Making Big Bucks?
In June, TorrentFreak published an article which gave a very brief outline of the pirate IPTV business, in particular how those services are sold and how customers are serviced. The report scratched only the service of what is a highly organized industry, one that over the past several years has developed into a global phenomenon – not to mention a thorn in the side of major entertainment industry groups. A new report from...
CIPPIC and CIRA Warn Federal Court of Pirate Site Blocking Dangers
Last year Canada’s Federal Court approved the first pirate site blocking order in the country. Following a complaint from major media companies Rogers, Bell and TVA, the Court ordered several major ISPs to block access to the domains and IP-addresses of pirate IPTV service GoldTV. There was little opposition from Internet providers, except for TekSavvy, which quickly announced that it would appeal the ruling. The blocking...
FBI Help German Authorities Secure $29.7m in Crypto From Pirate Streaming Site
Just over seven years ago, pirate streaming site Movie2K was riding on the crest of wave after establishing itself as one of the most popular platforms of its type on the Internet. The site was particularly popular in Germany where it was the 19th most popular site overall, generating more traffic than Twitter, Amazon, Apple and PayPal. At the end of May 2013, however, the site shut down without warning, prompting theories of legal...
An advanced guide to NLP analysis with Python and NLTK
In my previous article, I introduced natural language processing (NLP) and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), the NLP toolkit created at the University of Pennsylvania. I demonstrated how to parse text and define stopwords in Python and introduced the concept of a corpus, a dataset of text that aids in text processing with out-of-the-box data. In this article, I’ll continue utilizing datasets to compare and analyze...
Meeting for the first time after 26 years of open source collaboration
Collaborating on an open source software project is inherently an online experience. For me, almost all of my interaction has been via email. I’ll send someone a patch, and they’ll review it and reply to me. Or a user will file a bug, and I’ll respond to it via the bug tracker. More commonly, developers in the open source community will discuss ideas via the email list. read more Powered by...
