YTS Operator Helped Movie Companies Catch a Pirating User
Lawsuits against pirating Internet subscribers are far from new. In the US, they first appeared more than a decade ago. Over the years, the evidence in these lawsuits was regularly contested. In some cases this led to success, with courts concluding that an IP-address alone is not enough. After all, an IP-address doesn’t identify a person. Most prominent was a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Cobbler Nevada v....
Kim Dotcom Predicts NZ Supreme Court Will Rule in Favor of Extradition
The now-infamous Megaupload case has been treading a tortuous legal path for more than eight years in New Zealand. The United States Government wants Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn Batato, physically delivered as quickly as possible, to face what has been billed as the largest copyright infringement lawsuit of all time. After several lower courts determined that the Megaupload defendants should indeed be...
Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 08/17/20
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have five new entries in the list. The sci-fi action movie “Project Power” is the most downloaded title this week. The Netflix film, starring Jamie...
Shrink PDF size with this command line trick
My wife tutors students throughout the year, and recently she wanted to assign homework by scanning some workbook pages into a file and emailing them to her students. She asked for my help, so I used Simple Scan, a document scanning application for GNOME. read more Powered by...
The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language
Software development can be a very complex process. As the code you write increases in size and complexity, it is important to keep it readable and easy to understand. In open source software development, many people collaborate on code with several interconnected and, quite often, frequently moving parts. This can make it hard for potential contributors to understand the codebases. read more Powered by...
