Walking Dead Producer Expects Revenue to Surge Thanks to Streaming Piracy Law
At the end of 2020, U.S. Congress passed the spending bill. The legislation package includes various copyright-related changes, including a new plan to criminalize streaming piracy services. The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act (PLSA), as it’s called, was only introduced a few days prior and was approved without any notable debate. This stands in sharp contrast with earlier ‘felony streaming’ plans, which in part triggered the SOPA and...
DISH Wins $2.7m From Pirate IPTV Provider & Hosting Company, Seizes Domains
In July 2019, US broadcaster DISH Networks filed a lawsuit in a Delaware federal court targeting US-based Serverlogy Corporation and several John Does, together doing business as East IPTV. Serverlogy Corporation was described as a CDN/hosting company providing services to pirate IPTV supplier EastIPTV. According to DISH, EastIPTV is guilty of direct copyright infringement due to channels licensed to DISH being illegally broadcasted...
How to set up custom sensors in Home Assistant
In the last article in this series about home automation, I started digging into Home Assistant. I set up a Zigbee integration with a Sonoff Zigbee Bridge and installed a few add-ons, including Node-RED, File Editor, Mosquitto broker, and Samba. I wrapped up by walking through Node-RED’s configuration, which I will use heavily later on in this series. read more Powered by...
3 open source tools that make Linux the ideal workstation
In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I’ll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Today, I’ll share with you why Linux is a great choice for your workday. read more Powered by...
Why choose Plausible for an open source alternative to Google Analytics
Taking on the might of Google Analytics may seem like a big challenge. In fact, you could say it doesn’t sound plausible… But that’s exactly what Plausible.io has done with great success, signing up thousands of new users since 2018. Plausible’s co-founders Uku Taht and Marko Saric recently appeared on The Craft of Open Source podcast to talk about the project and how they: read more Powered by...
