news.buyenne.com

A few hours ago the MPAA took credit for shutting down one of the biggest piracy icons in recent history.

The YIFY release group and the YTS website shut down facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit, which the New Zealand-based operator couldn’t fight.

The downfall is a loss to many YIFY fans. However, the BitTorrent ecosystem at large will also be severely affected as it also signals the end for Demonii, the largest standalone BitTorrent tracker.

What only a few people know is that in recent years Demonii was run by YIFY’s operator. As a result of the legal troubles with the movie studios, Demonii will soon go offline as well, bringing down another key player.

With over 40 million people connected at any given time during the day, Demonii is currently the largest torrent tracker.

At the time of writing Demonii still serves torrents to 41,622,554 peers, which translates to well over a billion connections per day. Impressive numbers that will soon become history.

Demonii’s current stats

Even without Demonii most torrents will still work fine, thanks to DHT and PEX, but the initial connections will take more time. This can slow down download times for many people.

Trackers are also essential for those who use proxies, as they often have DHT and PEX disabled to prevent their real IP-addresses from leaking out.

With Demonii, YTS and YIFY gone there’s no doubt that the torrent ecosystem has lost several big players. However, history has also shown that these are never mourned for long.

It may be hard for other tracker to pick up Demonii’s load without increasing their capacity. But there are plenty of alternatives still around to fill the gap and more are expected to rise because of it.

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

Die ganz großen Massen kann World of Warcaft nicht mehr anziehen: Laut Blizzard spielen derzeit weltweit rund 5,5 Millionen Abonnenten in Azeroth. Künftig wollen die Entwickler keine offiziellen Mitgliederzahlen mehr veröffentlichten. (WoW, MMORPG)

Microsoft hat bereits schon länger den Verkauf von Windows 7 und Windows 8.1 im Handel offiziell eingestellt. Allerdings ohne Auswirkungen. Die Verteilung über Hersteller dürfte hingegen deutliche Auswirkungen haben, wenn auch erst in einem Jahr. (Windows 7, Microsoft)

Pixelio ist ein Drehteller, der es ermöglicht, kleine Objekte mit dem Smartphone abzufotografieren und daraus 3D-Scans zu erzeugen. Dabei dreht sich nicht etwa der Teller, sondern das Smartphone. Es wird auf einem Ausleger um den Aufnahmetisch herumgefahren. So sind auch Panoramen möglich. (Crowdfunding, CAD)

43.000 Stellen in der IT-Branche sind unbesetzt. Asylbewerber könnten helfen, den Fachkräftemangel zu lindern - doch bis dahin sind noch große Hürden zu überwinden. Nur langsam erkennt die Regierung, wo nachgebessert werden muss. (Bitkom, Telekommunikation)

Apple hat eine schalterlose Tastatur patentiert, die ohne Schalter auskommt. Stattdessen ist in jeder Taste ein kleines Force-Touch-Panel, das die Druckstärke erkennt. Ein Aktor sorgt beim Drücken dafür, dass der Nutzer ein haptisches Feedback erhält. So sollen flachere Macbooks möglich werden. (Tastatur, Apple)

The results and analysis for Blu-ray (and DVD) sales for the week ending 24th October 2015 are in. Another big week for Blu-ray (plenty of these coming up, right up to the end of the holiday period), as the release of Jurassic World helped Blu-ray revenue reach a 2015 high, and for weekly Blu-ray market share to reach an *all time* high (just shy of the magical 50% mark, which means Blu-ray will have outsold DVDs during the week).

You can read the rest of the stats and analysis here

Neue Mobilfunktechnik mit 1 GBit/s kommt in Netzen in Europa zum Einsatz. Huawei will demnächst Verträge mit weiteren großen Betreibern ankündigen. (Mobilfunk, Huawei)

The BitTorrent piracy ecosystem lost several key players in recent weeks.

The main Popcorn Time fork operating from the PopcornTime.io domain name closed its doors on October 23, citing internal issues.

Part of the trouble was started by rumors of legal pressure, which the MPAA confirmed today.

The major movie studios have sued three Popcorn Time developers in Canada, the group announced in an official statement. The MPAA obtained an injunction on October 16 ordering the shutdown of the Popcorntime.io site.

The complaint accuses the developers of various copyright infringing acts and also lists the VPN provider VPN.ht, which was operated by two of the Popcorn Time developers.

The complaint

The legal action in Canada was not an isolated incident, however. Around the same time, movie industry representatives targeted the operator of YTS/YIFY who’s a New Zealand resident.

The movie industry representatives had a warrant and threatened a multi-million dollar lawsuit, urging the operator to cooperate.

YTS went dark two weeks ago as a result of the legal trouble and is not coming back.

The status of the lawsuits in Canada and New Zealand is currently unclear, but sources told us last week that several of the accused are working on an agreement to minimize their harm, possibly in exchange for information.

The MPAA, meanwhile, is ready to declare the outcome as a clear victory.

“This coordinated legal action is part of a larger comprehensive approach being taken by the MPAA and its international affiliates to combat content theft,” MPAA boss Chris Dodd says.

“Popcorn Time and YTS are illegal platforms that exist for one clear reason: to distribute stolen copies of the latest motion picture and television shows without compensating the people who worked so hard to make them,” he adds.

—

Update: The article was updated to remove some unrelated info, and add other bits and pieces that came in.

Update: The Popcorn Time injunction and claim (via HWR).

Breaking story, more info may follow later.

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

About ten months ago a team led by the former CEO of Opera Software launched a technical preview of a new web browser called Vivaldi. It has some of the key features that helped make Opera stand out, including the Speed Dial shortcuts for favorite websites. But Vivaldi is aimed squarely at power users: it […]

Vivaldi web browser for power users goes beta is a post from: Liliputing