Hosting Company Defeats Filmmakers’ “VPN Piracy” Lawsuit in Court
A group of independent film companies has taken the piracy liability issue to a new level this year. After targeting site operators and individual pirates, the makers of films such as “London Has Fallen”, “Outpost” and “Dallas Buyers Club” started going after VPN providers. They didn’t stop there either. Over the past few months, several hosting companies have been sued as well. This includes the Californian hosting company Quadranet...
Lawmakers: Fix Copyright Law to Stop Gamblers “Beating the Bookies”
While there are plenty of stories of people hitting the proverbial jackpot when gambling, there are many more tales of habits becoming a problem. As a result, bookmakers are often portrayed as preying on victims, trying every trick in the book to part people from their money. But what if there was a way to even things out a little, to “beat the bookies” as it were? As it stands, a small but significant loophole certainly exists and...
Deploy Mycroft AI voice assistant on Raspberry Pi using Ansible
Mycroft AI is a virtual assistant application that can respond to verbal requests and complete tasks such as searching the Internet for some information you need, or downloading your favorite podcast, and so on. It’s a fine piece of open source software that, unlike similar software from companies in the business of harvesting personal data, provides privacy and platform flexibility. read more Powered by...
4 ways you can edit a PDF with the pdftk-java command
Between technology whitepapers, manuscripts, and RPG books, I deal with lots of PDFs every day. The PDF format is popular because it contains processed PostScript code. PostScript is the native language of modern printers, so publishers often release a digital version of a book as a PDF because they’ve invested in the time and effort to produce a file for print anyway. But a PDF isn’t intended to be an editable format, and...
