Month: November 2015

Budget tablet maker E Fun has launched another, well… budget tablet. This one runs Windows 10, has an 8.9 inch display, and comes with a keyboard dock that lets you use the tablet like a little notebook. The best think about the E Fun Nextbook Flexx 8.9? Its price tag: the tablet is available from […]

Nextbook Flexx 8.9 is a 2-in-1 Windows 10 tablet for $139 is a post from: Liliputing

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon line of laptops are thin-and-light notebooks made from premium materials and sporting premium hardware. The first model launched in 2012, and Lenovo has offered a new version every year since then. That might change soon… because Lenovo may have three new models on the way. According to a leaked product roadmap, here’s what […]

Leaked Lenovo roadmap: New ThinkPad X1 notebook, tablet, and convertible incoming is a post from: Liliputing

Most smartwatches are wearable devices that connect to your phone over Bluetooth to display notifications, allow you to search the web, or perform other activities. Some models can also connect to the internet over WiFi. But the Samsung Gear S2 and LG G Watch Urbane 2nd Edition are watches that don’t need your phone at all. […]

Cellular smartwatches from Samsung, LG hit AT&T is a post from: Liliputing

Google says it has no plans to kill Chrome OS and replace it with Google Android. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Google was planning to merge the two operating systems in the future, but Google’s senior vice president of Chrome OS and Android says that while the company continues to work to “bring together […]

Google says Chrome OS isn’t going anywhere is a post from: Liliputing

The BlackBerry Priv has gotten a lot of attention as the first Android phone from BlackBerry, complete with support for a series of BlackBerry apps and services including communication, search, and security tools. It’s also one of the only major Android phones to launch this year with a physical keyboard. But there’s another thing that […]

BlackBerry Priv available from AT&T Nov 6th for $250 is a post from: Liliputing

Google’s Project Tango technology adds 3D depth and motion tracking technology to Android phones and tablets. That might not sound quite as sexy as say, the Project Ara modular smartphone effort the company’s also undertaking. But Project Tango is a bit closer to launch: Google has been selling developer kit tablets for a while, and […]

Some of the best (and first) Project Tango games (Google’s 3D sensor system for phones, tablets) is a post from: Liliputing

With a net income of more than $1 billion Elsevier is one of the largest academic publishers in the world.

Through its ScienceDirect portal the company offers access to millions of scientific articles spread out over 2,200 journals, most of which are behind a paywall.

Websites such as Sci-Hub and The Library Genesis Project, or Libgen for short, have systematically breached this barrier by hosting pirated copies of scientific publications as well as mainstream books.

Earlier this year one of the largest publishers went into action to stop this threat. Elsevier filed a complaint at a New York District Court, accusing the sites’ operators of systematic copyright infringement.

The publisher requested damages and asked for a preliminary injunction to prevent the sites from distributing their articles while the case is ongoing.

Late last week District Court Judge Robert Sweet approved the request (pdf), ordering the operators of Sci-Hub.org, Bookfi.org, Elibgen.org and several sister sites to cease their activities.

In addition, the responsible domain name registries are ordered to suspend the associated domain names until further notice.

Previously the Public Interest Registry (.ORG) refused to do so when Elsevier put in a request, noting that it would require a valid court order to suspend a domain name.

According to the order Elsevier showed that it’s likely to succeed based on its copyright infringement claims. In addition, there’s enough evidence to suggest that the defendants violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

“The balance of hardships clearly tips in favor of the Plaintiffs. Elsevier has shown that it is likely to succeed on the merits, and that it continues to suffer irreparable harm due to the Defendants’ making its copyrighted material available for free,” Judge Sweet writes.

The site’s operators have few grounds on which to fight the injunction, as they don’t have the right to distribute most of the articles in the first place.

“The Defendants cannot be legally harmed by the fact that they cannot continue to steal the Plaintiff’s content, even if they tried to do so for public-spirited reasons,” the order reads.

Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub, is the only person who responded to Elsevier’s complaint. In a letter she sent to the court before the injunction hearing, she argued that the publisher is exploiting researchers and blocking access to knowledge.

Judge Sweet agrees that there is a public interest to safeguard broad access to scientific research. However, simply putting all research online without permission is not the answer.

“Elbakyan’s solution to the problems she identifies, simply making copyrighted content available for free via a foreign website, disserves the public interest,” Judge Sweet writes.

The Judge notes that under current law researchers and the public are allowed to publicly share “ideas and insights” from the articles without restrictions. People can also freely use the copyrighted articles for research or educational purposes under the fair use doctrine.

“Under this doctrine, Elsevier’s articles themselves may be taken and used, but only for legitimate purposes, and not for wholesale infringement,” the order reads.

At the time of writing several of the websites, including Sci-hub.org and Bookfi.org, are still online. It is expected that they will be suspended by the registry in a matter of days.

Time will tell whether the site operators will also stop offering copyrighted articles, or if they will simply move to a new domain name and continue business as usual.

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

Apple-Entwickler können künftig den Quellcode verschiedener sicherheitsrelevanter Komponenten von iOS und OS X überprüfen. Das Security-Framework und die Common-Crypto-Bibliothek stehen unter Open-Source-Lizenz. Eine weitere Komponente kann jedoch nur angesehen werden. (Open Source, Apple)

Motorola’s third-gen Moto X smartphones may already be available, but the company’s 2nd-gen Moto X from 2014 is still a pretty good smartphone, sporting a 5.2 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 13MP rear camera, and a 2,300 mAh battery. More importantly, today you can […]

Deals of the Day (11-02-2015) is a post from: Liliputing

Mehrere Endlosspiele gleichzeitig, flotte Kampfeinsätze und ein Sprung in die fernere Zukunft: Mit dem PC-Aufbauspiel Anno 2205 geht das Entwicklerstudio Blue Byte einige Risiken ein - und gewinnt. (Anno 2205, Spieletest)