Brazzers Owner Awarded $36.5m in ‘YesPornPlease’ Copyright Lawsuit
MG Premium, part of the Mindgeek adult empire, had been homing in piracy platforms YesPornPlease.com and VShare.io for some time. In 2019 the Brazzers owner obtained a DMCA subpoena requiring Cloudflare to hand over the personal details of the sites’ owners. In January 2020, YesPornPlease had around 100 million visitors per month (SimilarWeb stats) so any information would’ve been useful to MG Premium. Sources within unlicensed adult...
Yout.com Challenges Site Blocking in Peru, Strands in Spain
The music industry has pushed for site blocking measures around the world, with quite a bit of success. Among the main targets are popular stream-ripping services. This includes Yout.com, which is operated by the American developer Johnathan Nader. Unlike many of his peers, Nader isn’t simply taking these blocking orders lying down. On the contrary, where possible, he actively challenges them in court, as we’ve seen in Denmark, Spain,...
9 resources to help you contribute to open source in 2022
In 2022, open source is becoming more and more of a household name. But for many years, open source was known as the scrappy underdog of the enterprise IT landscape. Open source has been around for decades in some form or fashion, but it wasn’t even until the late 1990s that it was formalized with its name. read more Powered by...
Get started with Carbonio, an open source collaboration platform
In recent years, interest in using open source collaboration platforms to enhance business productivity increased. Proprietary software has managed to overwhelm customers with a maze of licensing requirements and pay-to-play features that many companies don’t want to manage. On the other hand, open source offers alternatives that give companies the liberty of choice and allow new businesses to enter existing markets easier with...
How Ukraine’s Internet Can Fend Off Russian Attacks
The besieged country’s complex internet infrastructure has evolved to promote resiliency. Powered by WPeMatico