Member of Scene Piracy Group SPARKS Gets 22-Month Prison Sentence
For several decades, The Scene has been the main source of all pirated content made available on the Internet. Technically, release groups operate in a closed ecosystem, but the reality is different. The vast majority of the files published on private Scene servers eventually find their way to public pirate sites. The SPARKS Bust The secretive nature of the Scene has been a major challenge for law enforcement but last summer the US...
Danish Torrent Tracker Admin Gets Conditional Prison Sentence
Over the past year and a half, Danish law enforcement authorities did their best to shut down the local torrent tracker scene. It started in September and October 2020 when DanishBits and NordicBits went offline after their operators were caught. New Targets As is often the case, it didn’t take long before other sites stepped up. Rival trackers such as “Asgaard” and “ShareUniversity” opened their doors to new members, resulting in an...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/07/2022
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have two new entries on the list. “House of Gucci” is the most downloaded title. The most torrented movies for the week ending on February 07 are: Movie...
5 steps to migrate your application to containers
Generally, you consider it a good thing when people want to use your application. However, when the application runs on a server, there’s a cost for popularity. With users come increased demands on resources, and at some point, you may find that you need to scale your app. One option is to throw more servers at the problem, establish a load balancer like Nginx, and let the demand sort itself out. read more Powered by...
My tips for maintaining dotfiles in source control
Ever started using a new computer, by choice or because the old one let the magic smoke out, and got frustrated at how long it took to get everything just right? Even worse, ever spent some time reconfiguring your shell prompt, then realizing you liked it better before? read more Powered by...
