AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge

More than a decade after Aaron Swartz's death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the...

Deliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed

Vice is reporting on a new police hack: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens, trying to provoke social media sites into taking the videos down and maybe even banning the filmers: In a separate part of the video, which Devermont says was filmed later that same afternoon, Devermo...

US COVID-19 relief bill to make copyrighted content streaming a felony

By Deeba Ahmed The $300/week unemployment legislation includes a clause that will make streaming of protected content a punishable crime. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US COVID-19 relief bill to make copyrighted content streaming a felony...

InstaSave - Python Script To Download Images, Videos & Profile Pictures From Instagram

InstaSave is a python script to download images, videos & profile pictures from Instagram without any API access. Features Download Instagram Photos Download Instagram Videos Download Instagram Profile Pictures Git Installation clone the repo $ git clone...

August 17, 2019—KB4512534 (OS Build 17763.720)

August 17, 2019—KB4512534 OS Build 17763.720 Note Follow @WindowsUpdate to find out when new content is published to the release information dashboard. Starting with update KB4497934, we are introducing functionality that allows you to decide when to install a feature update. You control when you...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: cryptopp-5.6.2-9.fc22

Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes. See http://www.cryptopp.com/ for a list of supported algorithms. One purpose of Crypto++ is to act as a repository of public domain not copyrighted source code. Although the library is copyrighted as a compilation, the...

The Pirate Bay Updated With Phoenix Image and Set to return on 1 February

The Pirate Bay — an infamous Torrent website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — could be relaunched on 1st February, the date the website has long been expected to return. The website went dark from the Internet following a raid in Sweden last month. After a complai...

Anonymous Hacks Swedish Government in Revenge for 'Pirate Bay' Takedown

An online "hacktivist" group that calls itself Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hacking into email accounts of Swedish government in response to the seizure of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week. Apart from Sweden government officials, the Anonymo...

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan Japan's legislature has approved a bill revising the nation's copyright law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material or backing up content from a DVD. The penalties will come into effect in...

2013 Federal Budget Includes Nearly $800M For Cybersecurity

President Obama is asking for $769 million to fund information security initiatives via the Department of Homeland Security in 2013. That amount is nearly twice what DHS asked for last year to fund its cybersecurity work. “The Administration proposes $769 million to support the operations of the...

100 BitTorrent Users Do Most Illegal Sharing

BitTorrent, the peer to peer file sharing network, has gained a reputation for enabling the masses to share and distribute files. But when it comes to sharing copyrighted content, just 100 users are responsible for most of the content. The findings, published by academic researchers in Spain,...

Web Server Potentially Hosting Copyrighted Material

The remote web server is hosting media mp3, wav, avi, or asf files that might be infringing on the owners' copyright. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid11778; scriptversion"$Revision: 1.25 $"; scriptcvsdate"$Date: 2011/03/18 18:07:04 $";...