Philippines Regulator Warns Investors to Steer Clear of Mining City’s Bitcoin Vault Ponzi
There’s a mining contract scheme people are discussing and making the rounds on the web called “Mining City” or “Bitcoin Vault.” The Philippines SEC recently put out a warning against the operation and the alleged masterminds behind the project. One thing is for sure, there’s been a number of crypto Ponzi operations over the years, and they typically attract a lot of users before they crumble. However, as the story goes with any...
Pirate Streaming Hoster “Go Unlimited” Hacked on Behalf of Competitor
With millions of views per month, Go Unlimited is one of the most popular hosting services for pirate streaming sites. Most video hosting services try to avoid a pirate stigma whenever they can, but that’s not the case for this one. DMCA Ignored Hosting The hosting service, which was founded by a Kuwaiti entrepreneur named Bader, launched in 2016 with the aim of being a ‘takedown resistant’ platform. The operator runs several video...
Dutch ISPs Must Block Pirate Bay Proxies and Mirrors Again, Court Rules
Following court orders and site blocking regimes worldwide, The Pirate Bay is blocked in dozens of countries. This is also the case in the Netherlands where the legal process took more than a decade to conclude. In 2010, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN first went to court demanding that local ISP Ziggo should block The Pirate Bay. The ISP, which was later joined by XS4ALL, fought tooth and nail and used all options at its disposal to...
Set up ZFS on Linux with yum
I am a Fedora Linux user who runs yum upgrade daily. While this habit enables me to run all the latest software (one of Fedora’s four foundations is “first,” and it lives up to that), it also highlights any incompatibilities between the ZFS storage platform and a new kernel. read more Powered by...
Is open source a development model, business model, or something else?
The term “open source” was coined in 1998 at a strategy session held by Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI maintains the Open Source Definition (OSD), which places mandates on the distribution terms of any software that claims to be open source. The OSI also maintains a curated list of official open source licenses that meet these guidelines. read more Powered by...
