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Die kommende Version 4.4 des Linux-Kernels enthält einen freien Grafiktreiber für das Raspberry Pi und ermöglicht Grafikbeschleunigung in virtuellen Maschinen. Verbessert worden sind der RAID- und BPF-Code, geplant ist außerdem die Langzeitpflege der Version. (Linux-Kernel, Dateisystem) 
Die kommende Version 4.4 des Linux-Kernels enthält einen freien Grafiktreiber für das Raspberry Pi und ermöglicht Grafikbeschleunigung in virtuellen Maschinen. Verbessert worden sind der RAID- und BPF-Code, geplant ist außerdem die Langzeitpflege der Version. (Linux-Kernel, Dateisystem) 
Die Bundesregierung will alle deutschen Haushalte mit elektronischen Stromzählern ausstatten lassen. Wie groß ist die Gefahr, dass damit eine detaillierte Gerätenutzung und sogar die Fernsehgewohnheiten ausspioniert werden können? (Smart Grid, GreenIT) 
Die Bundesregierung will alle deutschen Haushalte mit elektronischen Stromzählern ausstatten lassen. Wie groß ist die Gefahr, dass damit eine detaillierte Gerätenutzung und sogar die Fernsehgewohnheiten ausspioniert werden können? (Smart Grid, GreenIT) 
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Ant Man.’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Another World’ ‘Ronaldo’ completes the top three.
Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
This week we have four newcomers in our chart.
Ant Man is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row.
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.
RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | IMDb Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Ant-Man (Webrip) | 7.7 / trailer |
| 2 | (…) | Another World/a> (Web-DL) | 5.3 / trailer |
| 3 | (…) | Ronaldo/a> | 6.7 / trailer |
| 4 | (2) | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 7.5 / trailer |
| 5 | (7) | No Escape | 6.9 / trailer |
| 6 | (3) | Inside Out | 8.4 / trailer |
| 7 | (5) | Everest (Subbed HDRip) | 7.3 / trailer |
| 8 | (…) | American Ultra (Web-DL) | 6.1 / trailer |
| 9 | (4) | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (Subbed HDrip) | 6.8 / trailer |
| 10 | (…) | Unthinkable | 7.3 / trailer |
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Sony has released the names of the first set of Ultra HD Blu-ray titles to be released early next year.’The Amazing Spiderman 2′, ‘Chappie’, ‘Hancock’, ‘Pineapple Express’, ‘Salt’ and ‘The Smurfs 2’ have been chosen to be the first titles to recei…
Sony has released the names of the first set of Ultra HD Blu-ray titles to be released early next year.
'The Amazing Spiderman 2', 'Chappie', 'Hancock', 'Pineapple Express',
'Salt' and 'The Smurfs 2' have been chosen to be the first titles to received the Ultra HD Blu-ray treatment, with additional support for an open, non-proprietary HDR that's compatible with 4K TVs with HDR.
Some 4K TV owners have already expressed disappointment at the line-up, but Sony has promised that a steady stream of Ultra HD Blu-ray titles, including 'Fury', 'Captain Phillips', 'Lawrence Of Arabia' and 'The Fifth Element', will be forthcoming.
Rival studio 20th Fox previously announced that most new release titles will be simultaneously available on Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray, and it is expected Sony will follow suit. The first batch of UHD Blu-ray titles from Fox includes 'Gods and Kings', 'Fantastic Four', 'Kingsman: The Secret Service', 'Life of Pi', and 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
The process of releasing titles, particularly catalog titles, on Ultra HD Blu-ray is by no means a straight forward. Many titles will need to be carefully restored to 4K resolution, and some early digital titles, while shot in 4K, were archived in lower 2K resolution, making restoration more difficult.
Roboter töten Menschen. Diese Erfahrung haben schon mehrere Betriebe gemacht. Deutsche Wissenschaftler wollen Industrieroboter feinfühliger machen. Dazu müssen sie erst einmal herausbekommen, wie stark der Roboter zuschlagen darf, ohne einen Schaden zu verursachen. Freiwillige vor. (Roboter, Technologie) 
Roboter töten Menschen. Diese Erfahrung haben schon mehrere Betriebe gemacht. Deutsche Wissenschaftler wollen Industrieroboter feinfühliger machen. Dazu müssen sie erst einmal herausbekommen, wie stark der Roboter zuschlagen darf, ohne einen Schaden zu verursachen. Freiwillige vor. (Roboter, Technologie) 
Microsoft hat die Präsentationssoftware Powerpoint um zwei Werkzeuge zur Erstellung aufwendiger Folien ergänzt. Neben filmischen Übergängen mit Morph wird mit Designer ein Werkzeug angeboten, das auf Basis eines Bildes das Foliendesign erstellen soll. (Powerpoint, Office-Suite) 
Microsoft hat die Präsentationssoftware Powerpoint um zwei Werkzeuge zur Erstellung aufwendiger Folien ergänzt. Neben filmischen Übergängen mit Morph wird mit Designer ein Werkzeug angeboten, das auf Basis eines Bildes das Foliendesign erstellen soll. (Powerpoint, Office-Suite) 
Ford testet seine autonomen Autos in MCity, einem abgesperrten Bereich der Universität Michigan, in dem eine Stadt simuliert wird. Das soll die Entwicklungszeit reduzieren. Die Stadt wurde naturgetreu nachgeahmt, bedruckte Kulissen stellen Häuser dar. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie) 
Ford testet seine autonomen Autos in MCity, einem abgesperrten Bereich der Universität Michigan, in dem eine Stadt simuliert wird. Das soll die Entwicklungszeit reduzieren. Die Stadt wurde naturgetreu nachgeahmt, bedruckte Kulissen stellen Häuser dar. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie) 
Bei copter.eu ist ab sofort eine neue Transporttasche für den YUNEEC ST10-Sender (sowie ähnliche Fernsteuerungen) erhältlich. Die 310 x 210 x 135mm große Tasche ist mit einem zusätzlichen Innenfach, einem Trageriemen und einem umlaufenden Reißverschluss versehen. Kostenpunkt: 22,90 Euro. Features: hochwertige Sendertasche für YUNEEC ST10 / ST10+ sehr leicht und stabil, exakt passend großer Reissverschluss […]
The seminal Anne Frank’s Diary is elevated to public domain in a month and a half. But the foundation holding the copyright is trying legal trickery to extend its monopoly by decades, and almost nobody reports it as the fraud it is.
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Anne Frank‘s Diary, if you haven’t heard of it, is the notes of a girl who hid in Amsterdam from the nazis toward the end of World War II. Sadly, she didn’t make it, and died at nazi hands in 1945.
Her diary has become a seminal work to understand what people in the occupied countries went through on a personal level, beyond the statistics. It was compiled after her death and after the war by her father, Otto Frank.
As Anne Frank died in 1945, this work would be elevated to the public domain in six weeks, on January 1, 2016 – 70 years after her death. However, the foundation that holds the copyright (and therefore collects a significant amount of money from this work) is now trying an obvious abuse of their monopoly, by suddenly naming her father Otto a co-author of her diary where he was previously just an editor. This move purportedly extends their own monopoly on the piece of heritage by decades – all the way through 2050 – out of the blue.
What’s really infuriating about this is how oldmedia doesn’t call it out as fraud at all, but takes a completely neutral stance. Most outlets seem to be rewrites of the New York Times story, which just neutrally reports “the book now has a co-author”, quotes a few people in the worst form of abdicative “he-said-she-said journalism”, and leaves it at that.
Let’s be clear on three points here: One, this is a fraud committed for the sole purpose of preventing the work from being elevated to the public domain; two, it is committed now as the book would otherwise be elevated to the public domain a mere six weeks from now — if Otto Frank was objectively a co-author, it would reasonably have said so from the beginning, and not when then monopoly was down to the wire; and three, oldmedia remains abysmally ignorant of how the copyright monopoly is used to punish and withhold, rather than the illusory encourage and reward.
Not one single oldmedia outlet has called out the fraud, even though it’s right in their face.
The tech outlets are less inhibited. BoingBoing is much more upright, calling it fraud in the very header.
The thing is that this ignorance is endemic to oldmedia. The Internet is the single most important piece of infrastructure we have, and policymakers are letting an old printing monopoly decide how it can and cannot be used – which should be cause for revolts and uprisings. Instead, oldmedia are collectively treating it with a yawn, while tech writers who understand the issue are calling a spade a spade.
What’s worse, it’s widely assumed that the cost of the monopoly is zero. But as BoingBoing observes, there have been two houses fighting in lockstep over petty monopolies to bring the story of Anne Frank to the world – and seeing how that number is typically limited to one, now that it’s evidently possible to have two, what sets a cap at two? Why can’t it be two hundred or two thousand?
That’s the harm of the copyright monopoly. Putting it differently, were it not for the copyright monopoly, we wouldn’t have had seven Harry Potter books but rather upwards of seven thousand, many utter crap but some outright stellar. There’s a real cultural cost, a real cost to our common heritage, right there. That’s how the copyright monopoly punishes and withholds us all.
And oldmedia is completely oblivious to it.
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Rick Falkvinge is a regular columnist on TorrentFreak, sharing his thoughts every other week. He is the founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, a whisky aficionado, and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. His blog at falkvinge.net focuses on information policy.
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The seminal Anne Frank’s Diary is elevated to public domain in a month and a half. But the foundation holding the copyright is trying legal trickery to extend its monopoly by decades, and almost nobody reports it as the fraud it is.
Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Anne Frank‘s Diary, if you haven’t heard of it, is the notes of a girl who hid in Amsterdam from the nazis toward the end of World War II. Sadly, she didn’t make it, and died at nazi hands in 1945.
Her diary has become a seminal work to understand what people in the occupied countries went through on a personal level, beyond the statistics. It was compiled after her death and after the war by her father, Otto Frank.
As Anne Frank died in 1945, this work would be elevated to the public domain in six weeks, on January 1, 2016 – 70 years after her death. However, the foundation that holds the copyright (and therefore collects a significant amount of money from this work) is now trying an obvious abuse of their monopoly, by suddenly naming her father Otto a co-author of her diary where he was previously just an editor. This move purportedly extends their own monopoly on the piece of heritage by decades – all the way through 2050 – out of the blue.
What’s really infuriating about this is how oldmedia doesn’t call it out as fraud at all, but takes a completely neutral stance. Most outlets seem to be rewrites of the New York Times story, which just neutrally reports “the book now has a co-author”, quotes a few people in the worst form of abdicative “he-said-she-said journalism”, and leaves it at that.
Let’s be clear on three points here: One, this is a fraud committed for the sole purpose of preventing the work from being elevated to the public domain; two, it is committed now as the book would otherwise be elevated to the public domain a mere six weeks from now — if Otto Frank was objectively a co-author, it would reasonably have said so from the beginning, and not when then monopoly was down to the wire; and three, oldmedia remains abysmally ignorant of how the copyright monopoly is used to punish and withhold, rather than the illusory encourage and reward.
Not one single oldmedia outlet has called out the fraud, even though it’s right in their face.
The tech outlets are less inhibited. BoingBoing is much more upright, calling it fraud in the very header.
The thing is that this ignorance is endemic to oldmedia. The Internet is the single most important piece of infrastructure we have, and policymakers are letting an old printing monopoly decide how it can and cannot be used – which should be cause for revolts and uprisings. Instead, oldmedia are collectively treating it with a yawn, while tech writers who understand the issue are calling a spade a spade.
What’s worse, it’s widely assumed that the cost of the monopoly is zero. But as BoingBoing observes, there have been two houses fighting in lockstep over petty monopolies to bring the story of Anne Frank to the world – and seeing how that number is typically limited to one, now that it’s evidently possible to have two, what sets a cap at two? Why can’t it be two hundred or two thousand?
That’s the harm of the copyright monopoly. Putting it differently, were it not for the copyright monopoly, we wouldn’t have had seven Harry Potter books but rather upwards of seven thousand, many utter crap but some outright stellar. There’s a real cultural cost, a real cost to our common heritage, right there. That’s how the copyright monopoly punishes and withholds us all.
And oldmedia is completely oblivious to it.
About The Author
Rick Falkvinge is a regular columnist on TorrentFreak, sharing his thoughts every other week. He is the founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, a whisky aficionado, and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. His blog at falkvinge.net focuses on information policy.
Book Falkvinge as speaker?
Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
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