YouTube Holds Licenses For Copyright Lawsuit Plaintiff’s “Entire Back Catalog”
A class action lawsuit filed by Maria Schneider against YouTube more than two years ago has support from artists who believe big tech should do better. While that opinion is widespread in the music industry, no musical artists of any description joined Schneider in the class action, despite the plaintiffs oozing confidence in their allegations. Mass copyright infringement, failure to suspend repeat infringers, and breaches of the DMCA...
Dash the Iranian: Busted Pirate IPTV Kingpin Allegedly Owns RapidIPTV
Publicizing the closure of a big pirate service, the arrest of its operators, and the seizure of their assets, is a golden opportunity to discourage future crime by practical example. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, you will be caught, and your riches will be taken away, the message goes. But while anti-piracy groups and law enforcement agencies publicize headline-grabbing statistics about the services they target, it’s not...
Clean up unwanted files in your music directory using Groovy
Clean up unwanted files in your music directory using Groovy Chris Hermansen Mon, 08/29/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like In this series, I’m developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In the last article, we used the framework created for analyzing the directory and sub-directories of music files, checking to make sure each album has a cover.jpg file and recording...
4 ways to use the Linux tar command
4 ways to use the Linux tar command AmyJune Hineline Mon, 08/29/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like When you have a lot of related files, it’s sometimes easier to treat them as a single object rather than 3 or 20 or 100 unique files. There are fewer clicks involved, for instance, when you email one file compared to the mouse work required to email 30 separate files. This quandary was solved...
