RIAA: Not Even Improper YouTube ‘Rolling Cipher’ Complaints Can Be Countered
After the RIAA caused outraged by filing a complaint that took down the open source software YouTube-DL from Github, YouTube-ripping service Yout.com sued the music industry group. In common with its claim against youtube-dl, the RIAA had previously asked Google to delist Yout.com’s homepage on the basis that it too circumvented YouTube’s ‘rolling cipher’ technology. With both Github and the EFF arguing that youtube-dl’s features...
Danish Torrent Tracker Crackdown Leads to Six New Arrests
Over the past several months, Danish law enforcement authorities effectively shut down the thriving local torrent tracker scene. It started in September and October 2020 when DanishBits and NordicBits went offline after their alleged operators were caught. The shutdown of these sites was a major blow to the local piracy ecosystem but it didn’t take long before other sites stepped up. Both Asgaard and ShareUniversity opened their doors...
Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 01/18/2021
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 three new entries in the list. The Western drama movie “News of the World,” starring Tom Hanks, is the most downloaded title this week. The most torrented...
Set up a Linux cloud on bare metal
Virtualization is one of the most used technologies. Fedora Linux uses Cloud Base images to create general-purpose virtual machines (VM), but there are many ways to set up Cloud Base images. Recently, the virt-install command-line tool for provisioning VMs added support for cloud-init, so it can now be used to configure and run a cloud image locally. read more Powered by...
10 ways big data and data science impacted the world in 2020
Big data’s one of many domains where open source shines. From open source alternatives for Google Analytics to new features in MySQL, 2020 brought several ways for open source enthusiasts to learn big data skills. Get up to speed on how open source data science languages, libraries, and tools help us understand our world better by reviewing the top 10 data science articles published on Opensource.com last year. read more Powered by...
