US Court Dismisses ‘Unique’ YTS Trademark Case Against Pirate Sites & Apps
Brands are important for most businesses. They identify a service or product and are often associated with certain qualities. The position is no different in the piracy ecosystem. Brands are essential there as well but are not always what they seem to be. YTS Copycats Given the nature of pirate sites, brand copying is widespread. This is also the case with YTS, the name of a long-defunct pirate release group. Today, there are still...
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms & Pirate Sites
Even erring on the side of caution with conservative estimates, there are at least hundreds of piracy-related sites on the Internet today that the RIAA would like to shut down. To have any chance of doing that, however, early work has to be done to collect various pieces of information. This can include the owners of the platforms’ domains, the IP addresses of their servers and where that hardware is physically hosted, plus any other...
My journey to becoming an open source mentor
I was just 16 when I made my first meaningful open source contribution. It was the first code contribution I ever made, and I learned a lot from it. I’m 20 now, and I’ve been strongly attached to free and open source software (FOSS) ever since. I strive to be a friend to my community colleagues and to help others continue growing, learning, and succeeding. read more Powered by...
RT-Thread launches developer event
RT-Thread is an open source embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) providing a wide range of components along with more than 250 software packages (and counting) for the Internet of Things (IoT). In previous Opensource.com articles, the RT-Thread project has demonstrated how to code hardware with an RTOS and how to program for IoT using open source tools. read more Powered by...
‘Watch Dogs: Legion’ Tackles Surveillance Without Humanity
The game envisions a near future full of techno-dystopian surveillance, but it doesn’t have much to say about the people it affects. Powered by WPeMatico
