UK Lawmakers Form Crypto and Digital Assets Group to Ensure Regulation Supports Innovation
U.K. lawmakers have formed the Crypto and Digital Assets Group to ensure that new rules for the crypto industry support innovation. “We are at a crucial time for the sector as global policymakers are also now reviewing their approach to crypto and how it should be regulated,” said the British parliament member who will chair the group. British Lawmakers Form Crypto and Digital Assets Group U.K. parliament members and members of the...
RIAA: Yout’s Attempt to Legitimize Stream-Ripping is ‘Wordplay’
Downloading audio and video is prohibited by YouTube’s terms of service but there are numerous ‘stream-ripping’ sites available on the web that do just that. These services are a thorn in the side of music industry outfits, who see them as a major piracy threat. The operators and users of the stream-ripping tools disagree and point out that there are legal uses as well. At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest...
PrimeWire: Hollywood & Netflix Win Court Injunction to Disable Site Domains
While there are a handful of other contenders, PrimeWire is one of the most enduring pirate streaming portals on the internet today. In various forms, including under the 1channel branding, the site has been in operation for perhaps eight years. In common with many similar sites, PrimeWire has had its fair share of anti-piracy problems over the years. Its domains are blocked by court order in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway,...
8 surprising things I learned about Python in 2021
Python has long been one of the most popular programming languages, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing new to learn. This list of Opensource.com’s most-read articles about Python is an excellent place to start. Widespread adoption of machine learning is here, and its applications are still growing. See how machine learning, using Naïve Bayes classifiers and implemented with Python, can solve real-life problems....
Run containers on Linux without sudo in Podman
Containers are an important part of modern computing, and as the infrastructure around containers evolves, new and better tools have started to surface. It used to be that you could run containers with just LXC, and then Docker gained popularity, and things started getting more complex. Eventually, we got the container management system we all deserved with Podman, a daemonless container engine that makes containers and pods easy to...
