Goodbye Hadopi: France Will Launch New ‘Arcom’ Anti-Piracy Agency in 2022
For more than a decade the Hadopi (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet) anti-piracy agency was France’s official response to the threat of peer-to-peer file-sharing. The anti-piracy body pioneered the so-called “graduated response” system back in 2010, with Hadopi tracking down copyright infringers using mainly BitTorrent networks and then warning, fining, or even disconnecting...
US Copyright Office Expands Jailbreaking Exemption to Roku and Apple TV
Section 1201 of the DMCA prohibits the circumvention of copyright controls without permission. This legal restriction prevents the general public from bypassing DRM protection on a wide variety of content and devices. There are some important exceptions to this rule, however. This includes phone jailbreaking, which was declared legal in 2010. These provisions are renewed every three years after the Copyright Office hears various...
Print a Halloween greeting with ASCII art on Linux
Full-color ASCII art used to be quite popular on DOS, which could leverage the extended ASCII character set and its collection of drawing elements. You can add a little visual interest to your next FreeDOS program by adding ASCII art as a cool “welcome” screen or as a colorful “exit” screen with more information about the program. read more Powered by...
A simple CSS trick for dark mode
You’re likely already familiar with media queries. They’re in widespread use for making websites responsive. The width and height properties contain the viewport’s dimensions. You then use CSS to render different layouts at different dimensions. read more Powered by...
