Megaupload: Police Prepare to Seize Assets of Co-Founder Mathias Ortmann
Earlier this week attention turned to New Zealand’s Supreme Court as a panel of judges prepared to publish their decision in the extradition case of Kim Dotcom and several of his former Megaupload colleagues. In their ruling, a panel of judges at the Supreme Court confirmed that Dotcom and former Megaupload colleagues Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn Batato, can technically be extradited to the United States to face...
Major Torrent Site EZTV Has Domain Suspended By Registry
Over more than a decade, EZTV established itself as one of the most respected torrent sites on the Internet. But five years ago, unwelcome change hit the platform. In 2015, former EZTV operator NovaKing was ousted from the platform after an apparent hostile takeover of the TV-focused torrent site. Interestingly, this development began when the original EZTV had domain troubles, something now being faced by its new owners. EZTV.io...
Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests
Every week, Netflix sends out thousands of takedown requests, most of which target pirated copies of its movies and TV-shows. Yesterday, however, we spotted a series of copyright infringement notices with a different and rather uncomfortable theme. The streaming giant asked Twitter to remove dozens of tweets that included footage from the French coming-of-age film Cuties. This film hasn’t been without controversy and the same can be...
Share RPG battle maps with this open source web app
I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), a tabletop role-playing game in which players take control of mythic heroes to explore imaginary dungeons and fight make-believe dragons. D&D players often like to draw maps on big sheets of butcher’s paper, or buy and craft evocative set pieces, so that they can track their progress through the realms with gaming miniatures. read more Powered by...
A web-native approach to open source scientific publishing
This summer, eLife was pleased to launch Executable Research Articles (ERAs) in partnership with Stencila, allowing authors to post computationally reproducible versions of their published papers in the open-access journal. read more Powered by...
