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Die Gründer der C3S wollen ein zeitgemäßes Urheberrecht und das Monopol der Gema bei der Musikverwertung brechen. Jetzt geht das Projekt in den "Endspurt". (C3S, Urheberrecht)

Selbst zu tauchen, ist nicht jedermanns Sache. Wer dennoch Unterwasserwelten ergründen will, kann bald eine tauchende Kameradrohne vorschicken. Open Rov Trident heißt die Drohne, die über Kickstarter finanziert wird. Die Software zum Ansteuern ist Open Source. (Kickstarter, Technologie)

Das Metallgehäuse Exo GP-1 ist für Gopro-Besitzer gedacht, die die kleine, aber auch etwas unhandliche Actionkamera zum normalen Fotografieren verwenden wollen. Das Gehäuse lässt sie wie eine gewöhnliche Kamera aussehen. (Gopro, Digitalkamera)

Ob Apple ein Auto plane oder nicht, verrät das Unternehmen nicht. Apple-Manager haben sich jedoch mit kalifornischen Behördenvertretern getroffen, um rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Erprobung selbstfahrender Autos im Verkehr zu erörtern. Vielleicht ist Apple weiter, als einige glauben. (Autonomes Fahren, Apple)

From New Zealand's three-strikes to France's three-strikes, read this and other news stories for the week ending 20 September 2015

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A report has been released on France's controversial "three-strikes" anti-piracy law to commemorate the five year anniversary of the law's introduction.

Dubbed Hadopi, named so after the agency responsible for managing the regime, the law was one of the first so-called "three-strikes" laws introduced anywhere around the world. Under the regime, users' Internet activities were monitored and are warned if they were found to be downloading infringing content. Upon the third time infringing activity was found, the action against the user was elevated, either to a fine or even disconnection.

Not all infringing activities were monitored under the regime, with the priority being placed on BitTorrent downloads - direct downloads and the increasingly popular streaming methods are not monitored.

When the Sarkozy government was elected out of office, the incoming government decided to review Hadopi. Hadopi was subsequently modified to no longer disconnect users, opting for fines instead.

This week, Hadopi turns five and to commemorate, the HADOPI agency has released statistics showing the full effect of the law.

In the 60 months covered by the stats, over 5.4 million infringement notices were sent out, or nearly 100,000 notices were month. 

These next set of figures, however, would be ones often cited by industry heavyweights when it comes to defending the effectiveness of Hadopi.

Only 10% of those warned the first time continued to download and were warned a second time. And only 2,900 users out of 5.4 million, or 0.57%, continued to download to receive a third strike.

This would seem to suggest that the warnings were effective in stopping downloaders, even if most of these third strikes did not lead to any fines or persecutions.

However, as revealed by Hadopi recently, the agency only had resources to process around 50% of all reported infractions every month, meaning many potential second and third strikes went unnoticed. 

Furthermore, users who received warnings may simply have switched to one of the numerous other download or streaming methods that Hadopi does not monitor, or use a VPN service to mask their online identity.

Regardless of the effect Hadopi had on users' download habits, all signs suggest that it didn't really have a profound effect on revenue, which would have been the whole point of stopping piracy.

Offenbar zu Testzwecken ist von Symantec unberechtigterweise ein gültiges TLS-Zertifikat für Google.com ausgestellt worden. Entdeckt hat Google das über die Logs des Certificate-Transparency-Systems. (Symantec, Google)

Samsung’s rumored to be building a smartphone with a folding display that could launch in 2016. But Samsung’s phone might not be unique: LG Display is also said to be developing a foldable display for smartphones, and according to ET News, the company is mass-producing the screens to meet an order by a US-based company. […]

Two smartphones with folding displays on the way? is a post from: Liliputing

Rund 100 neue Spiele monatlich: Valve hat während der vergangenen Monate die Zahl der nativen Linux-Ports auf seiner Steam-Plattform auf 1.500 erhöht. Darunter ist sogar ein Exklusivtitel. (Valve, Steam)

Amazons Tochterunternehmen Audible will Hörbuchverlage in ein Flatrate-Modell drängen und zwingt ihnen damit existenzbedrohende Konditionen auf, wie der Spiegel berichtet. Der Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels hat Beschwerde beim Bundeskartellamt eingereicht. (Audible, Amazon)