Premier League Wins Enhanced Illegal Streaming Blocking Order For 2021/22
For the past several years, The Football Association Premier League has been working to combat the availability of illegal streams of matches broadcast over the Internet. These streams can be dealt with in a number of ways but the current preference is to seek cooperation from Internet service providers to have them blocked so that subscribers are prevented from accessing them. This usually involves targeting servers operated by...
EU Court: YouTube and Uploaded Are, In Principle, Not Liable For Pirating Users
Week in and week out, YouTube’s users upload millions of hours of videos. As with any user-generated content site, this also includes copyright-infringing content. The file-hosting platform Uploaded faces similar issues. While it can be used to share legal files, some people choose to use it to share pirated content. This is a thorn in the side of several rightsholders, who argue that YouTube and Uploaded are liable for the infringing...
Filelinked Made ‘Banned’ Piracy Apps Easier to Find But Has Now Disappeared
In a normal environment, installing software to Android devices, including Amazon’s popular Fire TV range, is a straightforward affair. Both Google and Amazon provide their own easy-to-use stores but for some users, these can have limitations. While some apps can slip through Google or Amazon’s moderation processes, it’s generally accepted that these platforms don’t allow piracy-focused apps to be made available to the public. This...
Replace find with fd on Linux
Many Linux programmers use the find command every single day of their career. But find gives a limited set of filesystem entries, and if you have to do a large set of find operations, it’s not even very fast. So instead, I prefer to use the Rust fd command because it provides sensible defaults that work for most use cases. read more Powered by...
Parsing config files with Lua
Not all applications need configuration files; many applications benefit from starting fresh each time they are launched. Simple utilities, for instance, rarely require preferences or settings that persist across uses. However, when you write a complex application, it’s nice for users to be able to configure how they interact with it and how it interacts with their system. That’s what configuration files are for, and this...
