 move that would seem to be against its own interests, the Business Software Alliance — which includes Microsoft, Apple, Intel and Adobe, and focuses heavily on anti-piracy efforts — is pulling its support of federal legislation aimed at stopping Internet piracy.
Less than a month ago, the alliance was behind the bill:," the group said in a news release.
What's happened since then? Many have taken a closer look at the bill's provisions, including one that requires websites and telecom service providers to be monitoring their networks for piracy, and another that would let law enforcement actually seize a website and shut it down.
"Many Silicon Valley companies agree that piracy is a problem but say the legislation goes too far," said The Washington Post last week. "Web giants including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, eBay, and Mozilla... co-wrote a letter to Senate and House lawmakers urging Congress to reconsider the measures. They fear the proposals would invite lawsuits and empower law enforcement to shut down their operations if a copyrighted movie or song appeared on their sites without their authorization."
Now, the Business Software Alliance, which tackles piracy issues on a regular basis, agrees that "valid and important questions have been raised about the bill." BSA president Robert Holleyman wrote on the group's blog:.
It's pretty unusual to have legislation in the pipeline that is not getting the blessing of the major players, from Google to Facebook, Apple to Microsoft. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBCUniversal.)
The alliance says it hopes to work with Smith and the House Judiciary Committee to "resolve these issues." A committee aide told the Post that the congressman is open to changes, but only "legitimate changes."
The aide, who spoke anonymously, told the Post that some sites "are totally capable of filtering illegal content, but they won’t and are instead profiting from the traffic of illegal content.”
Christian Dawson, COO of commercial Web hosting provider ServInt, said SOPA and another proposed law, the PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA), need to be closely examined. On ServInt's blog, Dawson explained the potential impact of both bills for those trying to understand them:
... if you walked into Best Buy and saw something on the shelf you thought was pirated merchandise, under a law like the DMCA you would work with the store to get that product off the shelf. Under a law like PIPA or SOPA, you would force the landlord to close Best Buy.
Innovation cannot thrive in such an environment. Businesses won’t tolerate continuing to host on U.S.-based servers with the uncertainty that this model creates.
Enacting such laws to combat copyright infringement, he said, "would be like using a flamethrower to find a needle in a haystack." The issue now is whether that torch will be lit.
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I was about to suggest Chelmsford, being of noble birth.
All looks very plush, but just imagine no wet wipes in those days!
Better than a corgi I suppose. On a different tack, your earlier response made me think just what an unlucky man the good lord was - imagine being elevated to the aristocracy only to find you've got Chelmsford! Still I suppose it could have been Dagenham.
or South End/Saff End.......
That’s Southend - not South End.
I was only there the other day for an evening of cultural at the theatre there.
A stroll along the Royal Terrace there revealed an astonishing number of blue plaques. Notable amongst them we discovered Queen Caroline and Edward Whymper...
There is a link to the Rocket Battery as well, Francis Broadfoot Russell had attended courses at Shoeburyness.
The plaques are blue in Sarfend because its so bloody cold! "An evening of cultural" is such an East End way of putting it.
I stand or sit corrected.....Southend/Saffend is obviously the place in Essex - probably why Arthur Daley went there....
I had to Google it just to make sure it was still in where I thought it was.......
Subject: Re: Quick quiz.Please follow this walkthrough exactly as written. Don't put files in alternate locations or do things differently to how they are described here until you've seen it work and have an understanding of WHY things work the way they do. This walkthrough has been followed successfully many many times on several different setups. The screenshots and output samples were all captured while running through it. It works as written. Please follow it at least the first time through for the best chance of success.
Rather than describe the general case and leave it to you to figure out how it applies to your situation, we will walk through a very specific setup, watch the system work, and then discuss how you can change it to match your specific situation.
The hope is to avoid common pitfalls and work through a setup known to work to try and head off possible problems and build some understanding.
You have a basic familiarity with Docker concepts like containers and volume mapping.
To start, open a new terminal window or ssh to your linux server. You should be in your home directory, but to make sure you are, type cd ~.
Download the config file template and open it in an editor.
The first thing we will change is the [Web] section; for purposes of this how-to, nothing above that needs to change.
Open a new terminal window and ssh into your server.
➜  telly-docker ifconfig | grep "inet "
In nano, use the arrow keys to navigate, make the change, and hit control-O and return to save the file.
A known named source, which as of this writing is one of: "area51", "Iris", OR "IPTV-EPG"
Any source that provides an M3UPLUS URL [or file] and maybe an EPG XML URL [or file].
For purposes of this tutorial, I'll use an Iris account, but I'll configure it as a custom account since I'm expecting that everyone reading this has an iptv account that provides M3UPLUS and EPG links.
Make sure that you are using an M3UPLUS file or link, not an M3U.
You can delete lines with nano by putting the cursor on the line and pressing control-K.
Provider = "Custom"
M3U = "http://irislinks.net:83/get.php?username=REDACTED&password=REDACTED&type=m3u_plus&output=ts"
EPG = "http://irislinks.net:83/xmltv.php?username=REDACTED&password=REDACTED"
#  Filter = "YOUR_FILTER_REGULAR_EXPRESSION"
#  FilterKey = "group-title"
#  Sort = "group-title"
Name = "Sooper Cool IPTV"
Save the file and go back to your terminal. In nano, control-x to exit. If you haven't saved, press "y" and return to save when asked.
There's a skeleton shell script to run telly in docker. This will allow us to make changes to the run command more easily than on the command line.
Download the shell script template.
This shell script will work without modification IF your config file is in the same directory as the script [this is true if you've been following this walkthrough].
time="2019-06-13T22:29:33Z" level=info msg="telly is preparing to go live (version= |||IP_ADDRESS|||, branch=dev, revision=741108cd2100cf9f4d3a13f771d1ebe5132baae6)"
time="2019-06-13T22:29:33Z" level=info msg="Loading M3U from http://irislinks.net:83/get.php?username=REDACTED&password=REDACTED&type=m3u_plus&output=ts"
time="2019-06-13T22:29:42Z" level=info msg="Loading XMLTV from http://irislinks.net:83/xmltv.php?username=REDACTED&password=REDACTED"
time="2019-06-13T22:30:12Z" level=info msg="Loaded 9798 channels into the lineup from "
time="2019-06-13T22:30:12Z" level=panic msg="telly has loaded more than 420 channels (9798) into the lineup. Plex does not deal well with more than this amount and will more than likely hang when trying to fetch channels. You must use regular expressions to filter out channels. You can also start another Telly instance."
Hurray, our first error.
Plex has a limit of 420 channels; more than that result in unpredictable behavior. Because of this, telly will panic and exit if more than 420 channels are loaded.
That brings us to filtering.
It's impossible to come up with a generic solution for filtering. You're going to be applying a regular expression to portions of the lines in your M3U