‘The Digital Copyright Act Will Chill Innovation and Harm The Internet’
For years, U.S. lawmakers have considered options to update the DMCA so it can more effectively deal with today’s online copyright issues. Senator Thom Tillis was one of the most recent to take up the baton. Last December he released a discussion draft of the “Digital Copyright Act of 2021” (DCA) a potential successor to the current DMCA. “This discussion draft is the result of a year-long series of hearings and months of feedback...
Pirate Monitor Exits YouTube Class Action Piracy Lawsuit, Maria Schneider Persists
Every month, copyright holders and their representatives file massive numbers of requests with YouTube, demanding that allegedly-infringing content is taken down or otherwise dealt with. These requests can be filed manually or via automated processes, with larger players able to utilize YouTube’s Content ID system. The latter provides additional ease and flexibility, with rightsholders able to choose what action is taken in response...
Collect sensor data with your Raspberry Pi and open source tools
I have lived in 100-plus-year-old brick houses for most of my life. They look nice, they are comfortable, and usually, they are not too expensive. However, humidity is high in the winter in my climate, and mold is a recurring problem. A desktop thermometer that displays relative humidity is useful for measuring it, but it does not provide continuous monitoring. In comes the Raspberry Pi: It is small, inexpensive, and has many sensor...
Learn Python dictionary values with Jupyter
Dictionaries are the Python programming language’s way of implementing data structures. A Python dictionary consists of several key-value pairs; each pair maps the key to its associated value. For example, say you’re a teacher who wants to match students’ names to their grades. You could use a Python dictionary to map the keys (names) to their associated values (grades). If you need to find a specific student’s...
Take the first global open source maintainer survey
Nadia Eghbal’s 2016 Ford Foundation report on open source software infrastructure shed light on the problem of public code being built and maintained in large part by unpaid volunteers. Since then, the industry has been eager to understand how and why maintainers do this and what we can collectively do to support them better. read more Powered by...
