GitHub Re-Instates YouTube-DL After Letter from the EFF Drew Wilson | November 21, 2020 GitHub has re-instated repositories for online backup tool, YouTube-DL. This after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sent a letter.
Police Board Knew About Clearview AI Trial Drew Wilson | February 28, 2020 With the controversy about police use of Clearview AI, some might wonder if this is the actions of a few officers or if it came from the top. Now we know.
Denuvo DRM Used in HitMan 2 Cracked Days Before Release Drew Wilson | November 19, 2018 Days before Hitman 2 was scheduled to be released, it seems someone managed to crack the DRM used to “protect” the game.
Our Beta Compatibility and Emulation Guides Section Drew Wilson | December 14, 2013 By Drew Wilson We are proud to officially unveil another feature of this website. It is a section devoted to guides on compatibility and emulation of different systems.
CNET Targeted By the RIAA Over Software that Could be Used to Infringe Drew Wilson | June 23, 2012 If software is being distributed on your website that would be theoretically used to infringe copyright, does that make your website liable for any copyright infringement? The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) seem to think so and have targeted CNET’s download.com.
ZeroPaid Reviews LibreOffice – An Open Source Office Suite Drew Wilson | December 11, 2011 A few months ago, there was some fanfare about an alternative to the OpenSource personal productivity suite OpenOffice.org. This split project is known as LibreOffice. ZeroPaid decided to take a look at this software and gather some first impressions.
ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond 2 – Canadian Bill C-32 (Part 3 of 3) Drew Wilson | September 1, 2010 We have been interviewing Russell McOrmond. The interview is in three parts. Parts 1 and 2 are already available. We now conclude our three part interview.
BSA Admits Calculated Losses Due to Swedish Software Piracy Entirely Hypothetical Drew Wilson | May 20, 2009 It’s another blow to the studies that are put out by the industry to highlight the problems of piracy – one of the studies published by the Business Software Alliance to highlight the problem in Sweden is apparently “built on flat fees and estimates”. In other words, they effectively gave an educated guess.
Sony BMG Sued for Software Piracy – Assets Seized Drew Wilson | March 28, 2008 Sony BMG, a company known for enforcing its intellectual property rights, is now facing the other end of an Intellectual Property related lawsuit.
DMCA 2.0? Drew Wilson | April 25, 2006 Whoever said that things couldn’t be any worse is probably eating his/her hat right now. CNET News is reporting that there are proposals to expand copyright restrictions on the DMCA.