US Piracy Blocking Lawsuit Enters New Phase – Part Public, Part Hidden
After winning three lawsuits against three pirate streaming sites, earlier this year a coalition of Israel-based media companies obtained an injunction at a New York court. Every single ISP in the United States was required to block three sites, now and forever, on any domain in existence, now and in the future. Any and all web-based businesses were forbidden from doing any business with the defendants in perpetuity, despite their...
Tarantino and Miramax Settle Copyright Lawsuit Over “Pulp Fiction” NFTs
Last fall, movie director Quentin Tarantino announced that he would auction ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs to the public. These NFTs would unlock handwritten scripts and exclusive custom commentary from Tarantino, assets that many fans would like to get their hands on. NFTs are not without copyright issues, however, as Quentin Tarantino swiftly discovered. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a...
5 ways to resize and optimize images for the web on Linux
5 ways to resize and optimize images for the web on Linux Seth Kenlon Sat, 09/10/2022 – 03:00 There was a time when 5 MB was the reasonable maximum size for an email attachment. Today, it’s easily possible for a single photo to be 5 MB. Accordingly, the maximum attachment size has increased to, say, 25 MB. But of course file sizes are getting bigger and bigger too, and so eventually the attachment limit will go up too....
This Clever Anti-Censorship Tool Lets Russians Read Blocked News
Samizdat Online syndicates banned news sites by hosting them on uncensored domains—allowing people to access independent reporting. Powered by WPeMatico
Japanese Government Rewards Local Authorities With Non-Transferable NFTs
According to reports, the Japanese government is one of the first countries to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a supplementary award to local authorities that excelled in a digitization competition. The awards were given to local authorities as recognition for their efforts in using digital technology to solve local challenges. Issuing and Distributing NFTs via a Low-Cost Blockchain In what has been described as a first for the...
