Month: November 2015

Impatient fans of the popular FX series Fargo got lucky today. At least, those who are used to downloading or streaming it without permission.

The seventh episode of season two is scheduled to air tonight but thousands of people have already grabbed a copy from various torrent sites.

The leak originates from Hulu where the video was made freely available this weekend, by mistake. Hulu offers the second season of Fargo with a select cable subscription but the upcoming episode was reportedly listed under season one.

The error was noticed by several people and after roughly a day Hulu took the video down. But by then it was already too late.

This morning several copies of the leaked episode were uploaded onto torrent sites and since then thousands of people have downloaded it. Although some were skeptical, the episode is indeed real and the full version.

Screenshot of the leaked Fargo episode

The leak is unique as the source of the pre-release is an online streaming service. Most TV-show leaks we’ve seen recently come from so-called screener DVDs which are sent out for promotional purposes.

For Hulu, which is owned by media giants NBCUniversal Television, Fox Broadcasting and Disney–ABC Television, the mistake is quite an embarrassment. However, since it happened less than a day before the official premiere the effect of the leak should be limited.

TorrentFreak has asked Hulu for a comment on the news but at the time of publishing we have yet to receive a reply.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Die Telekom bekommt ihr exklusives Vectoringrecht im Nahbereich um die Hauptverteiler von der Bundesnetzagentur. Nur wenn Betreiber bereits stärker ausgebaut haben als die Telekom, bleiben sie verschont, so ein Entscheidungsentwurf. (Vectoring, DSL)

The makers of the Opera web browser launched a service called Opera Max last year, enabling Android users to cut their mobile bandwidth usage. It does that by routing your internet traffic through a remote server which compresses data before sending it to your phone. At launch Opera Max was able to reduce file sizes for images, text, […]

Opera Max can cut music streaming bandwidth by half is a post from: Liliputing

The MIPS Creator Ci40 is a single-board computer for developers working on projects involving Internet of Things applications and low-power MIPS processors. Imagination Technologies unveiled the board in October, and now the company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to bring the Ci40 to market. You can reserve a board with a pledge […]

MIPS Creatore Ci40 dev board hits Kickstarter for $53 and up is a post from: Liliputing

Spielentwickler, Politiker oder Markenhersteller bekämpfen kritische Videos auf Youtube oft mit einem Hinweis auf angebliche Copyright-Verstöße. Nun stellt Google mehrere Millionen US-Dollar bereit, um ausgewählten Produzenten in Musterprozessen vor Gericht zu helfen. (Youtube, Urheberrecht)

In less than two years Popcorn Time has become a piracy icon as well as one of Hollywood’s main nemeses.

Through various enforcement actions around the world the major movie studios hope to eventually contain this threat.

They recently booked a major victory when the MPAA filed a lawsuit against several key developers of the popular popcorntime.io fork in Canada. While this suit took down the associated website, there are several efforts to revive the project.

The problem for the movie studios is that Popcorn Time’s code is open source, allowing anyone to help out or distribute forks of their own. With minimal effort, developers can easily have their own improved version up and running.

While this results in a perpetual game of whack-a-mole, Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN has just announced a win.

The group reports that has tracked down two Dutch developers who helped to keep Popcorn Time alive, and urged them to stop their activities immediately.

“Since the recent action by the MPAA against popcorntime.io, which took the website offline, various parties are breathing new life into the software, as were these two Dutch individuals,” the group says.

According to BREIN the pair used GitHub to submit code and Reddit to share news about their accomplishments.

Preventing a possible court case, the developers signed a settlement with the anti-piracy group in which they agreed to stop their Popcorn Time development. The pair face a fine of €2,000 per day if they breach the agreement.

The Dutch developers don’t seem to be part of the core development team of the .io fork, which could explain why they got off with a relatively mild warning.

The lawsuit against three of the main popcorntime.io developers in Canada is still ongoing. They face millions in damages due to their involvement with the popular application and the associated VPN.ht service, which generated significant revenues.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Black Friday may not be here yet, but a whole lot of Black Friday and pre-Black Friday deals are already live. Amazon is offering some of the lowest prices of the year on Kindle products. Dell, Toshiba, and Samsung are offering discounts on some products. And ZTE is selling some of its latest phones for […]

Deals of the Day (11-23-2015) is a post from: Liliputing

Mit dem neuen Elite x2 hat HP seine Tablet-Palette um ein Detachable im Business-Bereich erweitert: Das Gerät kommt mit Eingabestift sowie optionaler Tastatur und kann wie ein Surface dank eines schwenkbaren Ständers aufgestellt werden. (Hewlett-Packard, Desktop-Management)

Ein Sternenzerstörer markiert das Zuhause in Maps, Einträge im Kalender erinnern an die Premiere von Das Erwachen der Macht: Google wirbt für den neuen Star-Wars-Film - und zeigt, wie schnell und umfassend persönliche Daten und Anwendungen infiltriert werden können. (Star Wars, Google)

Ein auf aktuellen Dell-Laptops vorinstalliertes Root-Zertifikat ermöglicht es Angreifern, nach Belieben HTTPS-Verbindungen mitzulesen. Eine fast identische Sicherheitslücke, verursacht durch das Programm Superfish, betraf vor einigen Monaten Lenovo-Laptops. (Dell, Notebook)