Court Overturns ‘Pirate’ IPTV Prison Sentences Due to Unenforceable Copyrights
Online piracy exists in many shapes and forms. Torrent sites were dominant a decade ago, but these have long been eclipsed by streaming portals. IPTV services have grown in popularity as well. In some cases, these offer access to live sports and TV programming without the permission of rightsholders. A few years ago, Advanced TV Network (ATN) was a dominant player in the Swedish IPTV market. Founded in 2008, ATN was a fast-growing...
Major Streaming Piracy Sites Have Their Domain Names Suspended
Over the years, pirate streaming services have eclipsed torrent sites and direct download portals in popularity. These streaming sites are seen as a massive problem in Hollywood, which made it a priority to shut them down. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment(ACE) is actively trying to find out who’s behind these sites, through DMCA subpoenas for example. However, there are other means to hit these streaming portals as well....
Manage Java versions with SDKMan
Java is more than just a programming language: It’s also a runtime. Applications written in Java are compiled to Java bytecode then interpreted by a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which is why you can write Java on one platform and have it run on all other platforms. A challenge can arise, however, when a programming language and an application develop at different rates. It’s possible for Java (the language) to increment its...
Open exchange, open doors, open minds: A recipe for global progress
Could open organization principles successfully apply to entire societies? That’s the question I asked as I read the book Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg, which aims to examine the relative success of “open societies” throughout global history. read more Powered by...
