BREIN Planning to Tighten The Noose on Pirates & Intermediaries
Founded before Napster, BREIN has forged itself a unique niche in anti-piracy enforcement. It not only tackles smaller-scale distributors and facilitators of infringing content, but has also obtained some of the most important legal precedents against the largest of targets, ones that will carry momentum for years to come. For these reasons and more, it’s always prudent to keep an eye on what BREIN is doing. The anti-piracy...
Interest in Kodi Declines After a Turmultuous Few Years of Piracy Headlines
When the Xbox Media Player first appeared for the first-generation Xbox game console way back in 2002, the project was familiar only to a very small and dedicated audience. In 2004, the player started to become known as XBMC (Xbox Media Center) and in 2008 the tool officially adopted this monicker. As it developed to become available on a broader range of its devices, XBMC’s goal largely remained the same, allowing hobbyists to...
Pornhub Sister Company Wants to Expose Video Hosting Site ‘Pirates’
The online porn industry is rather diverse but there is only one company leading the charge – Mindgeek. The company, formerly known as Manwin, owns one of the most visited adult websites, Pornhub, and is also the driving force behind YouPorn, Redtube, Tube8, Xtube, and dozens of other sites. Many of these tube sites became big by offering access to a wide variety of content, some of it posted without permission. However, that...
Why I still love tcsh after all these years
I consider myself a happy Bash user. However, when I started exploring Unix, it was on a proprietary Unix system that provided tcsh by default, so my earliest shell experiences were on a modern version of the C shell (csh). That turned out to be a fortunate accident because tcsh was also the shell of choice at the film studio where I worked later in my career. read more Powered by...
9 reasons I upgraded from AngularJS to Angular
In 2010, Google released AngularJS, an open source, JavaScript-based frontend structure for developing single-page applications (SPAs) for the internet. With its move to version 2.0 in 2016, the framework’s name was shortened to Angular. AngularJS is still being developed and used, but Angular’s advantages mean it’s a smart idea to migrate to the newer version. read more Powered by...
