Sci-Hub Blocking: Court Denies Researchers’ Application to Intervene
By providing a massive library of scientific and academic publications for free, Sci-Hub and Libgen have achieved a somewhat unique status in the ‘pirate’ market. On the one hand, the platforms freely spread knowledge and education, two of the most valuable commodities for those seeking a more enlightened and progressive global community. On the other, the platforms do so by leveraging copyrighted content that is owned and monetized...
Google Punishes Pre-Release Piracy Sites Harder in Search Results
Roughly 25 years ago, Google started its business as a simple and straightforward search engine. The startup swiftly captured a dominant market share and branched out into other businesses, including online advertising and video streaming. Google is a leading player in all of these markets today. This brings in a yearly revenues of hundreds of billions of dollars, an amount that continues to go up at a rapid pace. At the same time,...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/21/2022
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have two new entries on the list. “Scream” is the most downloaded title. The most torrented movies for the week ending on February 21 are: Movie Rank Rank...
How to make KDE look like GNOME on Linux
GNOME has a tendency for minimalist design. It’s a beautiful desktop experience, and holds the honor of being the first free desktop that’s ever elicited vocalized admiration from someone looking over my shoulder as I use Linux. Then again (and pardon the armchair philosophizing), you can’t have minimalism without complexity, and KDE is well known for being very customizable. read more Powered by...
4 levels of DevOps documentation maturity
DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It’s a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization’s DevOps discussions, it’s time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps. Here are the four levels of DevOps...
