Month: January 2016
Funcom: Überleben in Conan Exiles
Safe Harbor: Im Datenschutz-Limbo
Bis Montag wollen EU-Kommission und US-Regierung ein neues Abkommen zum Datentransfer erarbeiten, doch eine Einigung ist nicht in Sicht. Die Wirtschaft wird nervös. (Safe Harbor, Datenschutz)
OpenSSL-Lücke: Die Sache mit den sicheren Primzahlen
OpenSSL hat mit einem Sicherheitsupdate eine Sicherheitslücke im Diffie-Hellman-Schlüsselaustausch behoben, deren Risiko als “hoch” eingestuft wird. Allerdings dürfte kaum jemand von der Lücke praktisch betroffen sein. (OpenSSL, Technologie)
Jim Keller: AMDs und Apples Ex-CPU-Architekt wechselt zu Tesla
Bizx: Sourceforge und Slashdot werden wieder verkauft
Die beiden Webseiten Sourceforge und Slashdot gehören nicht mehr der Jobbörse Dice. Die neuen Besitzer Bizx betreiben sehr einfache Seiten wie Preisvergleiche oder Tourismustipps. (Sourceforge, Linux)
Copyright Infringing News Sites Raided and Shut Down
A division of the Italian government responsible for dealing with financial crime has raided and shut down 10 websites accused of illegally distributing subscription editorial content. Operation Phoenix has also resulted in the arrest of five individuals thus far, with a further five overseas websites blocked by attacking their DNS.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Every year dozens of file-sharing websites are raided, blocked or otherwise attacked by authorities seeking to clamp down on the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted content. With the entertainment industries the main driving force, protection of their content always gets the most attention.
However, developments now being reported by the Italian government shows that authorities are prepared to get tough with people aiming to make money off the back of other web-based content.
According to an announcement by the Guardia di Finanza (GdF), a law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance, coordinated national action has now been taken to prevent the unauthorized distribution of subscription editorial content.
Following an investigation carried out by the Special Unit for Broadcasting and Publishing, a number of individuals were identified as being responsible for the unauthorized publication of national and international newspapers and periodicals to the web without permission from rightsholders. In other words, news pirates.
The GdF says that following authorization from Rome Prosecutor’s office, ‘Operation Phoenix’ targeted locations in Naples, Carbonia-Iglesias, Brescia, Rome, Frosinone and Turin. Five Italian nationals were arrested on suspicion of being behind a total of 15 websites offering pirated news content including digital copies of subscription newspapers.
Ten local websites were raided and shutdown while five websites based overseas were blocked by interfering with their DNS records. Various items of computer equipment were also seized.
According to the GdF the operation was made possible following the introduction of a new system developed by the leading national media groups which enables the tracking of digital copies online. It said that the same principles applied in file-sharing cases were utilized in the current investigation.
“The enforcement efforts put in place by the Guardia di Finanza were made even more effective thanks to the innovative method of investigation based on the principle of ‘Follow the Money’,” the GdF said.
The authorities say they were led to the suspects after tracking the financial resources that connect the operators of the pirate sites to the suppliers of the adverts that appeared on their platforms.
According to the GdF a recent study on what it terms “the Italian publishing crisis” revealed that piracy of editorial content resulted in lost sales amounting to 400,000 copies of news articles each day during 2014. It claims that a five-year decline in sales has led to 4,800 jobs being lost in the sector.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Extraleben Teil 4: MacGyver, Competition Pro und Pac-Man
Neuer Lesestoff für Kinder der Achtziger: Constantin Gillies hat mit Retroland den vierten Teil seiner Extraleben-Buchreihe veröffentlicht. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Erinnerungen an eine Jugend mit dem C64, mit Star Wars und mit Spielemagazinen wie der ASM. (Extraleben, Spionage)
Facebook: Belgische Plätzchen statt Cookies
Der Rechtsstreit um Datenschutz zwischen Belgien und Facebook geht weiter – mit einem absurden Argument: Weil in der Begründung der Richter auch englische Worte wie Cookie und Homepage stehen, soll das Urteil nicht gültig sein. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)
App-Store: Apple repariert noch einmal OS X Snow Leopard
Apple hat für OS X 10.6 alias Snow Leopard noch einmal ein Update veröffentlicht. So ist sichergestellt, dass Anwender über das altgediente Betriebssystem noch Apps aus dem Mac App Store nutzen können. (Apple, Apple App Store)
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