Police “Seize” Pirate IPTV Platform, Prepare to Identify 50,000 Users
While rightsholders and authorities all around the world are working to disrupt pirate IPTV platforms, in 2020 Italian law enforcement entities have been more involved than most. Every few weeks agencies including the Guardia di Finanza have announced fresh action to try and reduce the use of piracy-enabled set-top devices, often referred to by the term ‘pezzotto’. New Legal Action Against 50,000-User IPTV Platform According to an...
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used to Upload ‘Pirate’ Movies & File DMCA Notices
Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Virgin Islands-based Pirate Monitor Ltd teamed up in the summer to file a class-action lawsuit against YouTube. In an effort to gain access to YouTube’s Content ID system, the complaint stated that YouTube has an allegedly lax attitude to takedown notices and repeat infringers, and discriminates against smaller creators. Schneider told the court that a number of her songs had been...
UK Police Threaten YouTube Ripper With Potential Criminal Action
For most police departments, online piracy has no priority, but the City of London Police have made copyright infringement one of their main targets. In September 2013, the department founded the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), which marked the start of a broad enforcement campaign to decrease traffic to pirate sites. To achieve this goal PIPCU has targeted hosting services, advertisers and payment processors, asking...
10 lessons from sysadmins adapting to change in 2020
While 2020 will certainly be remembered for elections, protests, and most of all, the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of other things changed in 2020, including a whole lot of cool changes in technology. Through it all, we could count on system administrators to do what they do best. Perhaps more so than ever, as we all moved from physical offices to working from home. We generated more load than ever on our infrastructure as more...
Learn Rust by writing a simple game
When you want to learn a new programming language, it’s good to focus on the things programming languages have in common: Variables Expressions Statements These concepts are the basis of most programming languages. Once you understand them, you can start figuring the rest out. Because programming languages usually share similarities, once you know one language, you can learn the basics of another by understanding its...
