Pid Eins: Responses to my Audio API Guide
My Audio API guide got quite a few responses. The Good Takashi likes it. And so does David. Which is great because both are key people in the Linux multimedia community. It made it to LWN. I sincerely...
View ArticleBradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ): Groupon Tried To Take GNOME’s Name & Failed
[ I'm writing this last update to this post, which I posted at 15:55 US/Eastern on 2014-11-11, above the original post (and its other update), since the first text below is the most important message...
View ArticleErrata Security: The Pando Tor conspiracy troll
Tor, also known as The Onion Router, bounces your traffic through several random Internet servers, thus hiding the source. It means you can surf a website without them knowing who you are. Your IP...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Bomber Tries Copyright Troll Argument to Unmask Critic
A man jailed for 50 years in the United States for multiple bombings, drug smuggling and felony perjury, is attempting to leverage copyright troll cases to his advantage. Brett Kimberlin says that...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Torrent Site: Copyright Troll Had Staff Access to Member Data
Empornium, one of the leading private torrent trackers for adult content, says it believes a copyright troll gained access to a staff moderation account and is now using obtained data to threaten its...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Piracy Lawsuits Dominated By Just Three Movie Companies
A new study into IP litigation over the past 20 years has revealed that file-sharing has transformed copyright litigation in the United States. In particular, attacks against anonymous file-sharers...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Sky Will Hand Over Customer Data in Movie Piracy Case
The UK's second largest ISP is about to hand over the personal details of customers to a company known for demanding cash from alleged file-sharers. Sky Broadband says it will hand over the names and...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Announcing “Troll Patrol”— and Why Social Media...
We see them all the time now, proclamations related to articles or social media postings that say: "Don't read the comments!" The fact that this has become a meme unto itself is both depressing and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Virgin Customers Targeted in New Porn Piracy Shakedown
Virgin Media subscribers in the UK are being shaken down over alleged porn downloads by a Cyprus-based company. Worryingly, letter recipients are invited to ring a premium rate number for advice and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Granny Pirate Busted For Torrents at 63 Years Young
You're never too old to learn something new and that certainly applies to a woman currently in hot water with European authorities. In what could be the arrest of the oldest file-sharer anywhere on the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Exposing Canadian Pirates Costs $11 Per IP-Address
Voltage Pictures, the company behind the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker movie, must pay $21,557 to expose 2,000 alleged pirates. Canada's Federal Court ruled on the long running dispute between the movie...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Received a Piracy Letter? UK Solicitor Will Defend You For Free
In recent weeks customers of UK ISPs have received letters from copyright trolls demanding settlement for alleged downloading of movies. Today they can fight back. London-based lawyer Michael Coyle...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: iiNet loses Dallas Buyers Club Piracy Case
File-sharers have been dealt a blow in Australia today after a Federal court ruled in favor of the company behind the movie Dallas Buyers Club in its highly anticipated case with local ISP iiNet....
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Judge: IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Movie Pirate
The filmmakers behind the action movie "Manny" have filed hundreds of lawsuits against BitTorrent pirates this year, but not have been successful. In a prominent ruling Florida District Court Judge...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Media Must Protect Dallas Buyers Club’s Innocent Victims
Don't expect the Federal Court to protect Australians from the claws of Dallas Buyers Club's Voltage Pictures. Sure, Justice Perram will cast an eye over their initial scare letter to alleged pirates,...
View ArticleBradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ): John Oliver Falls For Software Patent Trade...
I've been otherwise impressed with John Oliver and his ability on Last Week Tonight to find key issues that don't have enough attention and give reasonably good information about them in an...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: FBI Wants Pirate Bay Logs to Expose Copyright Trolls
Over the past months two Pirate Bay co-founders have been questioned by Swedish police, acting on behalf of the FBI. The officers were looking for information on Pirate Bay backups and logs as part of...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Copyright Troll Asks Court to Ban the Term ‘Copyright Troll’
Adult movie studio Malibu Media has asked the Indiana federal court to ban negative terms during an upcoming trial against an alleged BitTorrent pirate. According to the copyright troll, descriptions...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pornhub Uploaders Targeted By Copyright Troll
Several users of popular porn streaming site Pornhub have received settlement demands for thousands of dollars after uploading videos to the site without obtaining permission. How the users are being...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Adult Movie Outfit is Most Litigious Copyright Plaintiff in U.S.
A report crunching more than six years of copyright lawsuits filed in the U.S. has revealed that porn troll Malibu Media is the country's most litigious plaintiff. The company, which demands thousands...
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