Megaupload Lawsuits Remain in Limbo After Nearly 10 Years Passed
Ten years ago, online streaming hadn’t fully caught on yet and Netflix still had dozens of active DVD-mailing locations throughout the United States. Streaming piracy was relatively new as well with most ‘pirates’ still downloading movies from torrent sites or cyberlockers. While cyberlockers have plenty of legal uses, copyright holders viewed most of these services as pirate portals. This included Megaupload, which was by far the...
Supreme Court Denies to Hear Prenda Lawyer’s ‘Piracy Honeypot’ Appeal
In 2019, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota sentenced Paul Hansmeier to 14 years in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release. Hansmeier was a key player in the Prenda Law firm, which pursued cases against people who were suspected of downloading pirated porn videos via BitTorrent. Hansmeier and fellow attorney John Steele went a step further though. Among other things they lied to the courts, committed identity theft,...
How to change a hostname in Linux
To change your hostname on a Linux computer, use the hostnamectl command. For example, to change your computer’s hostname to myhostname: $ sudo hostnamectl --static --transient --pretty myhostname read more Powered by...
What is a hostname?
Computers have network addresses, but they’re usually difficult for humans to remember. Hostnames are labels intended to help humans refer to a specific computer. Instead of navigating to 192..168.1.4, for instance, you might navigate to linuxlaptop or linuxlaptop.local. read more Powered by...
