MPA, Amazon & Apple Win $30m in Damages Against Pirate IPTV Services
Operators of pirate IPTV services in the United States risk prison sentences and civil copyright infringement lawsuits when things don’t go to plan. The recent 66-month sentence handed to YouTuber ‘Omi in a Hellcat’ is one example with a particularly hefty price tag – $30+ million in restitution. IPTV services operated by Texas resident Dwayne Johnson weren’t as big or as profitable, but certainly important enough for Hollywood to...
MPA and RIAA Megaupload Lawsuits Are Now ‘Inactive’
More than a decade has passed since Kim Dotcom’s file-storage empire Megaupload collapsed after becoming the prime target in a high-profile law enforcement operation. The U.S. Government booked an early result in 2015 when programmer Andrus Nomm was handed a one-year prison sentence following a plea deal. The case lit up again last year when two of the three remaining defendants, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, signed an...
Why you should use Python and Rust together
Why you should use Python and Rust together Moshe Zadka Tue, 03/28/2023 – 03:00 Python and Rust are very different languages, but they actually go together rather well. But before discussing how to combine Python with Rust, I want to introduce Rust itself. You’ve likely heard of the language but may not have heard details about how it works. What is Rust? Rust is a low-level language. This means that the things the...
