YouTube-DL Fallout: Google Rejects RIAA MP3 Ripper Takedown Notices
The member companies of the RIAA are no strangers to sending DMCA takedown notices to have content removed from Google search. At the time of writing they have sent more than 94.4 million across more than 20,600 domains. The vast majority of these are standard DMCA claims, targeting content or links to content that directly infringe the labels’ rights. However, in more recent times the labels added a new tool to their arsenal in the...
Member of SPARKS Scene Piracy Group Pleads Guilty
Last year, the US Department of Justice booked one of its biggest successes in its battle against online piracy. In August, law enforcement upset the international piracy ecosystem by taking out a prominent Scene group, which was the source for many pirated movies and TV-shows. SPARKS Raids Throw Piracy Scene in Turmoil With help from international law enforcement partners, several raids and arrests were carried out, with the SPARKS...
The Pirate Bay is Pretty Broken Right Now But Can Be Coaxed Back to Life
In file-sharing terms, The Pirate Bay has been around almost forever. Launched in 2003, the torrent index has overcome every hurdle put in its way while other competitors have succumbed to various pressures. Indeed, even after all these years, The Pirate Bay is still a file-sharing giant. As revealed in our latest list of most visited torrent site, the site is still at the top of the heap, successfully pulling in more traffic than...
3 plain text note-taking tools
In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 5 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021. Plain text is the most resilient format for documents. Plain text documents are small, transfer quickly between machines, and can be read on any device. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense to take notes in a plain text document. read...
Learn awk by coding a “guess the number” game
When you learn a new programming language, it’s good to focus on the things most programming languages have in common: Variables – places where information is stored Expressions – ways to calculate things Statements – the means by which state changes are expressed in a program These concepts are the basis of most programming languages. read more Powered by...
