Movie Companies Ask Court to Freeze PayPal Assets of VPN Company
A group of movie production outfits, including affiliates of the film studios Millennium Media, Voltage Pictures and CineTel Film, has taken legal action against key piracy players in recent years. The makers of films such as “Hunter Killer,” “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” and “London Has Fallen,” have gone after individual file-sharers, apps such as Popcorn Time and Showbox, and pirate sites including YTS. VPN.ht and Popcorntime.app...
Valorant & Destiny 2 Cheat Maker Agrees To Pay $2m Copyright Settlement
Cheating in video games has become big business. Just yesterday, the BBC reported that police in China had busted the “world’s largest” operation of its type, supplying cheats for games including Overwatch and Call of Duty. The operation was called “Chicken Drumstick” and reportedly generated around $76m in subscription revenues. However, there are plenty of similar businesses still in action, with others targeted by videogame makers...
A practical guide to using the git stash command
Version control is an inseparable part of software developers’ daily lives. It’s hard to imagine any team developing software without using a version control tool. It’s equally difficult to envision any developer who hasn’t worked with (or at least heard of) Git. In the 2018 Stackoverflow Developer Survey, 87.2% of the 74,298 participants use Git for version control. read more Powered by...
20 ways to be more productive and respect yourself
The need to be productive is ingrained in who we are as human beings on some level. We oftentimes have to do yoga and meditate and breathe deeply in order to consciously slow down our minds and bodies, but when we do it helps us focus and be more productive when the time comes. Instead of constantly moving and doing, we should take periods of thoughtful breaks… or veg out in front of the TV or a sunset. And sleep at night! Then,...
Read and write files with Groovy
Two common tasks that new programmers need to learn are how to read from and write to files stored on a computer. Some examples are when data and configuration files created in one application need to be read by another application, or when a third application needs to write info, warnings, and errors to a log file or to save its results for someone else to use. read more Powered by...
