Anti-Piracy Lawyer Officially Secures RARBG Trademark
Copyright holders can take a wide variety of measures to tackle online piracy, with some being more creative than others. Hawaiian attorney Kerry Culpepper has tried different options over the years. This includes using the brands of various pirate sites and services as a weapon. Pirate Trademarks To pull this off, Culpepper incorporated the Hawaiian corporation 42 Ventures, which he used to register several piracy-related trademarks....
EU Court: Copyright Trolls Can Target BitTorrent Pirates Provided Claims Aren’t ‘Abusive’
Cyprus-based Mircom International Content Management & Consulting (Mircom) is a well-known entity in the world of copyright trolling. The company acts as a middle-man between rightsholders and legal action against alleged pirates from whom it demands cash settlements to make supposed lawsuits disappear. Mircom and controversy are rarely far apart. In 2019 the High Court in the UK threw out its efforts to obtain the identities of...
Replace du with dust on Linux
If you work on the Linux command line, you will be familiar with the du command. Knowing commands like du, which returns information about disk usage quickly, is one of the ways the command line makes programmers more productive. Yet if you’re looking for a way to save even more time and make your life even easier, take a look at dust, which is du rewritten in Rust with more intuitiveness. read more Powered by...
What is a config file?
There are thousands of configuration files on your computer. You may never directly interact with the bulk of them, but they’re scattered throughout your /etc folder and in ~/.config and ~/.local and /usr. There are probably some in /var and possibly even in /opt. If you’ve ever opened one by accident or to make a change, you may have wondered why some configuration files look one way while others look completely...
Edit text like Emacs in FreeDOS
On Linux, I often use the GNU Emacs editor to write the source code for new programs. I learned GNU Emacs long ago when I was an undergraduate student, and I still have the “finger memory” for all the keyboard shortcuts. When I started work on FreeDOS in 1994, I wanted to include an Emacs-like text editor. You can find many editors similar to Emacs, such as MicroEmacs, but these all take some shortcuts to fit into the...
