New VPN Crackdown Underway in Russia, Government Confirms
Next month will mark the 10-year anniversary of a new law introduced by Russia to ensure the safety of its citizens online. The “Extremist Websites Blocking Law” created a national blacklist to prevent socially harmful websites from being accessed by the public. No longer would extremist, terrorist, Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), or the promotion of illegal drugs be allowed to spread online. ISPs would block offending sites...
YouTube and Uploaded Could be Liable For Pirating Users, Court Rules
YouTube users upload millions of hours of videos a week. As with any user-generated content site, this also includes copyright-infringing content. The file-hosting platform Uploaded faces similar issues. While it can be used to share legal files, some people use it to share pirated content. This is a thorn in the side of several rightsholders, who argue that YouTube and Uploaded are liable for the infringing activities of their users....
Shueisha & VIZ Media Target Massive Manga Piracy Site ‘Manganato’
No longer the sole preserve of Japanese consumers, manga publications (comics/graphic novels) now have global reach and massive commercial potential, but that hasn’t always been the case. Granting broad access to manga titles, especially publications translated into English, was not a key priority for publishers until a few years ago. In the meantime, unofficial ‘scanlation’ groups stepped in to meet demand with their scanned and...
How static linking works on Linux
How static linking works on Linux Jayashree Hutt… Fri, 06/03/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Code for applications written using C usually has multiple source files, but ultimately you will need to compile them into a single executable. You can do this in two ways: by creating a static library or a dynamic library (also called a shared library). These two types of libraries vary in terms of how...
