ACE Shuts Down Pirate IPTV Providers as Unusual Potential Threat Looms
It’s not unusual for piracy groups to have dozens of domains in storage for when things go wrong, but none has a bigger collection than Hollywood itself. The MPA still owns isoHunt’s domain following its legal defeat a decade ago, alongside other spoils of war following battles with Popcorn Time, YTS/YIFY (the real ones), Hotfile and Openload. These examples represent just a handful of domains from a collection that has exploded since...
Nintendo ‘Hacker’ Gary Bowser Released From Federal Prison
In the fall of 2020, the U.S. Government indicted three members of the infamous Team Xecuter group, the masterminds behind various Nintendo hacks. The group allegedly made millions of dollars through its operation, which effectively shut down shortly after the criminal proceedings started. The authorities arrested Canadian Gary Bowser in the Dominican Republic and Frenchman Max Louarn was detained in Tanzania. The latter, a notorious...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 04/17/2023
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have three newcomers on the list. “Avatar: The Way of Water”, which came out as a high-quality pirate release, is the most downloaded title. The most...
Use autoloading and namespaces in PHP
Use autoloading and namespaces in PHP daggerhart Tue, 04/18/2023 – 03:00 In the PHP language, autoloading is a way to automatically include class files of a project in your code. Say you had a complex object-oriented PHP project with more than a hundred PHP classes. You’d need to ensure all your classes were loaded before using them. This article aims to help you understand the what, why, and how of autoloading, along with...
Talk to your cluster with this open source Python API wrapper
Talk to your cluster with this open source Python API wrapper rnetser1 Tue, 04/18/2023 – 03:00 Open source projects that create a wrapper around an API are becoming increasingly popular. These projects make it easier for developers to interact with APIs and use them in their applications. The openshift-python-wrapper project is a wrapper around openshift-restclient-python. What began as an internal package to help our team work...
