The Man Who Broke the Music Business (www.newyorker.com)
Dell Glover manufactured CDs for a living, but he began to wonder: if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD?
Updated my Gentoo guide to Sailing the High Seas (www.paneburroezucchero.info)
Well, i decided to brush up my simple HTML page and created a fully linked wiki on the subject. Please take a look, in the hope it will be useful for at least one fellow one-eyed leg-pegged passionate data hoarder....
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. (www.bloomberg.com)
Dish & Sling Sue ‘Pirate’ IPTV Operation For Circumventing Widevine DRM (torrentfreak.com)
Warner Bros. Wants Tumblr to Identify Beetlejuice 2 ‘Leaker’ (torrentfreak.com)
The image, which has since been removed, doesn’t give away too much. However. Warner Bros. is clearly alarmed by the leak. The movie studio has a history of cracking down on the unauthorized distribution of leaked material and this is no exception.
ACE Shuts Down Huge Football Piracy Ring, Total Destruction TBC (torrentfreak.com)
Right now, dozens of domains linked to live football piracy sites are redirecting to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Domains began displaying the ACE seizure banner on Saturday and the list has been growing ever since.
Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows (entertainment.slashdot.org)
Cool one hour podcast with peter sunde (darknetdiaries.com)
I really like this podcast, which is usually aboutother things, but because I love the bay and Peter Sunde and everything they (at least used to) stand for....
Microsoft Office activation guide modified to use Ohook (rentry.org)
I did a guide several months ago to make Microsoft Office installation as easy as possible. I have recently modified it to tell people to use the Ohook activation method and also updated the GitHub Gist mirror....
Russia Piracy Takedowns Up By 100%, “Western Rightsholders to Blame” (torrentfreak.com)
“If Western brands do not want to fight piracy in a particular country, it means that they are actually legalizing piracy of their content”
Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)
LOL....
Nordic piracy stats (ttvk.fi)
tldr;...
TachiyomiSY devs have announced to work on a new "spiritual successor" of Tachiyomi (ani.social)
This message has been posted on their discord server yesterday, currently the app is being worked on and has no definitive ETA. We probably have to use other forks until that. I don’t know whether I can share the discord server’s link so not sharing that until a mod gives heads up.
z-library offers 1 month free premium for testing their desktop software (z-library.se)
In case you want to download a bunch of books for free....
rentry.co now showing ad to recover server costs (rentry.co)
There’s a FOSS alternative for rentry.co which is sentrytwo.com - Codeberg...
Some ideas for the future of Rentry! Let's talk! (rentry.co)
Lokking for cool niche services, shells, free stuff. - Lemmy (lemmy.ml)
It's joever | Tachiyomi (tachiyomi.org)
Sucks…...
Tachiyomi replacement is out (github.com)
Youtube slowing down due to addblock (www.tomsguide.com)
Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?
Film studios demand IP addresses of people who discussed piracy on Reddit (arstechnica.com)
Re: Why don't people fight for their pirating rights? (www.reddit.com)
i was just banned from reddit for 3 days for “threatening violence” in this comment...
Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! (odysee.com)
Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer” (www.pcgamesn.com)
Quote from the article: “The inclusion of intrusive DRM softwares [sic] like Denuvo is a choice that yields an unfair punishment on the consumer,” Running With Scissors says. “Respect the consumer, make a game they want to play, and you will never feel the need to fight piracy. The gaming industry deserves a better future,...
Donate to creators! (gogetfunding.com)
For all od you weebs out there now it’s time to thank for the anime you got this year