Record Labels Object to ‘Inflammatory’ Evidence from ‘Pro-Piracy’ Site Boing Boing
Three years ago, several of the world’s largest music companies including Warner Bros. and Sony Music sued Internet provider Grande Communications. The recording labels accused the Astound-owned ISP of not doing enough to stop pirating subscribers. Specifically, they alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers. After several delays the trial is now in full swing, with both sides trying to convince the jury that...
Police Piracy Blacklist: UK Govt. Wants to Know Who’s Still Funding Pirate Sites
In the belief that pirate sites only stay online when they’re returning a profit, City of London Police decided that deprivation of revenue should be a key strategy in its fight against piracy. Launched in 2014 and controlled by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), the ‘Infringing Website List’ (IWL) carries details of pirate sites nominated by rightsholders and provides the basis for future enforcement via escalating...
Doing 64-bit math on a 16-bit system
Doing 64-bit math on a 16-bit system Jerome Shidel Wed, 10/26/2022 – 03:00 A few years ago, I wrote a command-line math program for FreeDOS called VMATH. It was capable of performing only extremely simple mathematical operations on very small unsigned integers. With some recent interest in basic math in the FreeDOS community, I improved VMATH to provide basic math support on signed 64-bit integers. The process of manipulating...
Tips for using the Linux test command
Tips for using the Linux test command Seth Kenlon Wed, 10/26/2022 – 03:00 The [ command, often called a “test,” is a command from the GNU Core Utils package, and initiates a conditional statement in Bash. Its function is exactly the same as the test command. When you want to execute a command only when something is either true or false, use the [ or the test command. However, there’s a significant difference...
