Two Founders of Piracy Giant Zone-Telechargement Sentenced in France
For those who care to remember it, November 2016 was a dark month for communities with a penchant for sharing files. Two huge sites fell in a matter of days, both courtesy of French authorities. When OiNK was shut down in 2007, the world’s largest dedicated music-sharing community fell with it. Few believed that a new site could fill the pig-shaped hole left behind; some insisted it would be wrong to even try. What.cd not only filled...
Police Confirm FBI-Assisted Takedown of Piracy Release Group EVO
EVO, short for EVOLUTiON, was a high-profile P2P group whose activities stood out in recent years. The group released a steady stream of new movie and TV show titles and gained pirates’ admiration by leaking many screeners way ahead of their official premieres. For several years in a row, EVO opened the “screener season” by releasing leaked copies of upcoming films. This included Oscar contenders, but also several Netflix titles that...
Take-Two Dismisses Claims Against Lead Defendants in GTA Mods Lawsuit
In 2021, a group of Grand Theft Auto enthusiast programmers released ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’, a pair of reverse-engineered modifications for GTA 3 and Vice City. These projects breathed new life into games that while still fantastic, benefited greatly from significant enhancements that helped to wind back the years. Fans loved ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’ but Take-Two and Rockstar Games most definitely did not. The companies’ first move was to file a...
Make a web-safe color guide with Bash
Make a web-safe color guide with Bash Jim Hall Thu, 04/06/2023 – 03:00 When computer displays had a limited color palette, web designers often used a set of web-safe colors to create websites. While modern websites displaying on newer devices can display many more colors than the original web-safe color palette, I sometimes like to refer to the web-safe colors when I create web pages. This way I know my pages look good anywhere....
How to lead through change with open leadership
How to lead through change with open leadership Ashish Lotangane Thu, 04/06/2023 – 03:00 Change is hard. It often brings discomfort, anxiety, and confusion. Even as an Agile enthusiast, I sometimes feel I’m not welcoming change the way I should. Change is often hard because the predecessor of change is chaos. Being in chaos is a natural part of the change process and an integral part of evolution. If chaos is handled...
