Month: January 2016

E Ink: it’s not just for eBook readers. The company that makes the screens used in Amazon Kindle and B&N NOOK eReaders is showing off some different applications for the low-power, high-contrast, sunlight readable displays. For example, there’s a large, four-panel E Ink display at the company’s CES booth showing different digital signage applications. For instance […]

E Ink showcases digital signage, luggage tags, and more at CES 2016 is a post from: Liliputing

Origami ist out: Heute wird mit Papier 3D-gedruckt. Mcor hat in Las Vegas einen neuen 3D-Drucker vorgestellt, der daraus farbige Objekte aufbaut. (3D-Drucker, CES 2016)

Huawei hat ein 10-Zoll-Tablet mit einer für den Preis sehr guten Ausstattung vorgestellt. In der Premium-Variante wird es mit LTE-Technik und Stylus ausgeliefert und hat mehr Speicher. (Tablet, Android)

Die Tierschutzorganisation Peta wollte einem Affen das Urheberrecht an mehreren Selfies erstreiten. Doch der Richter will dazu kein Grundsatzurteil fällen. (Wikipedia, Urheberrecht)

Nirgends starten so viele Raketen wie in Baikonur, dennoch will Russland einen neuen Weltraumbahnhof bauen - und das ist nicht leicht. Was beim Bau eines Weltraumbahnhofs zu beachten ist. (Raumfahrt, Virgin Galactic)

Die Kritik aus der Community ist harsch: Mit dem Preis von über 700 Euro für das Oculus Rift werde Virtual Reality so schnell kein Massenmarkt. Der Hersteller verteidigt sich - und nennt den Tag der Erstauslieferung, die für Neubesteller aber schon lange nicht mehr infrage kommt. (Oculus Rift, Games)

Amazon will mit einem eigenen Zustelldienst eine Konkurrenz zu DHL, Hermes und DPD aufbauen. Getestet wird über ein Versandlager in Olching bei München, das für Prime Now geschaffen wurde. (Onlineshop, Post)

Vergiss den Stau: Das Lufttaxi fliegt dich schnell zum Ziel. Das chinesische Unternehmen Ehang hat eine Drohne entwickelt, die einen Passagier transportieren kann. (CES 2016, Technologie)

Die Urheberrechtsexperten der SPD-Fraktion lehnen die Regierungspläne zur Störerhaftung bei offenen WLANs komplett ab. Sie befürchten, dass es damit weniger Hotspots in Deutschland geben würde. (Internet, WLAN)

After being founded in 2006, authorities in Sweden branded private torrent site SwePiracy as one of the most important locations for the illegal distribution of local and international films.

Following a torrent site crackdown in the wake of the “guilty” verdict in the Pirate Bay trial during April 2009, SwePiracy disappeared for a few weeks, but reappeared less than a month later.

Anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån (now Rights Alliance) said that in response to warnings for the site to close down, the operators of the tracker had taken measures to protect themselves instead.

Several years later during February 2012, authorities ran out of patience, with police in Sweden and the Netherlands taking coordinated action to shut down the site.

While Swedish police targeted the operators of the site, their Dutch counterparts took down SwePiracy’s servers in their jurisdiction. However, as is so often the case, overall downtime was relatively brief and SwePiracy laer reappeared via a new host in Canada.

Today, almost three years later, the alleged operator of the site will appear in court in Sweden. The now 24-year-old man is the alleged founder of the site and the person responsible for its resurrection after the raid.

According to District Prosecutor Henrik Rasmusson the man faces charges of violating copyright law due to unlawfully making available copyrighted movies online or assisting users to do the same. Rasmusson says that a lengthy custodial sentence is possible.

“Under the criminal scale he risks punishment ranging from fines to several years in prison,” Rasmusson says.

In addition to charges that he ran a site servicing tens of thousands of members, the prosecution claim that the man also collected around $100,000 in donations to keep the site running. However, it appears that the main motivation was not to make money, but to have fun.

“In this case, it is my assumption before the trial that the aim [for the accused] was to test the [torrent] technology and to share and make available video because it was entertaining and an interest he had,” Rasmusson notes.

But despite the absence of a financial motive, Swedish authorities have pursued this case for more than three years and the site itself for much longer, which suggests they don’t intend to go lightly on the 24-year-old.

At the time of the raid, Antipiratbyrån (Rights Alliance) said it also intended to seek damages from the site “according to The Pirate Bay model.” The case now centers around a sample 73 movies with the man being sued for more than $2.9m by local companies and international giants including Disney.

The trial is expected to run until Friday.

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