Month: February 2016

Vor dem heimischen Rechner sitzen und helfen, Menschenleben zu retten. Dank der Humanitarian Open Street Map ist das sehr leicht möglich. Die Teilnehmer der Fosdem sind von dem Projekt sichtlich bewegt und begeistert. (Fosdem2016, Openstreetmap)

Der erbittert geführte Patentrechtsstreit zwischen Samsung und Nokia ist beigelegt. Nokia geht als Sieger aus dem Kampf hervor. Beide Unternehmen nahmen den Vorschlag eines Schiedsgerichts an. (Samsung, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Immer häufiger werden angepasste Preise im Onlinehandel verwendet. Dagegen will Nordrhein-Westfalen mit einer Initiative vorgehen und eine überfällige rechtliche Regelung für Onlineshops erreichen. (Verbraucherschutz, Onlineshop)

Eine Soundkarte für Gamer, die ausgerechnet in Spielen Störgeräusche produziert: Asus' Strix Soar überzeugt uns zwar prinzipiell, die Audiowiedergabe hängt aber stark von der Grafikkarte ab. (Sound-Hardware, Asus)

Alle Spieler von Black Ops 3 müssen offenbar ab sofort Downloaderweiterungen zusammen mit den regulären Updates herunterladen, so ein Bericht. Auf diese Art können rasch viele GByte an ungenutzten Daten zusammenkommen. (Black Ops 3, Call of Duty)

Über 20 Teams, darunter auch ein deutsches, dürfen bis zum Sommer eine Hyperloop-Kapsel bauen und in der Röhre von SpaceX testen. Der Entwurf des MIT schnitt im Hyperloop-Designwettbewerb als bester ab. (Hyperloop, Technologie)

YouTube has been battling music rights group GEMA in several court cases for more than half a decade.

In one of the most prominent cases the music group, which claims to represent 70,000 artists, argued that YouTube is liable for the content its users upload.

As such, the music group demanded Google’s video service to pay 0.375 euro cents per view for a selection of copyrighted music videos.

Before the weekend the Higher Regional Court of Munich announced its verdict in the case, resulting in a clear win for Google. According to the court YouTube is not liable for the infringing material uploaded by its users.

The verdict, which confirmed a ruling from a lower court last summer, comes as a disappointment to GEMA. The music rights group believes that services such as YouTube are profiting from piracy.

“Today’s decision is most regrettable. The court has obviously followed YouTube’s argument that it is only the uploaders who are responsible for the contents that are retrievable via the service,” says Tobias Holzmüller, GEMA’s General Counsel.

“We consider this to be wrong. Furthermore, the decision is not justified from an economic perspective, as it continues to enable YouTube to generate high advertising revenues without passing them on to musical authors,” he adds.

The court’s decision is in line with the safe harbor principle which holds that user-generated content services are automatically not responsible for the actions of their users.

However, in recent months various music industry groups have called on lawmakers to reconsider this position. The European music group IFPI, for example, argued that these sites and services must obtain proper licenses.

In line with GEMA, IFPI chief executive Frances Moore previously called out YouTube for not playing fair, accusing it of benefiting from piracy.

“It is true that artists and record producers are not being paid fairly for the use of their music. This is because user upload platforms, such as SoundCloud and YouTube, are taking advantage of exemptions from copyright laws that simply should not apply to them,” Moore said.

“There should be clarification of the application of ‘safe harbors’ to make it explicit that services that distribute and monetize music do not benefit from them.”

GEMA says it’s reviewing the decision from the Higher Regional Court Munich, which it expects to appeal in the near future.

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

Für Linux-Nutzer werde das Grafik-API Vulkan einige Vorteile bringen, erklärt ein Intel-Entwickler, und Programmierer können sich auf ziemlich viel Open-Source-Code rund um Vulkan freuen. Doch genauso ist mit Problemen zu rechnen - und womöglich Jahren des Wartens. (Fosdem2016, Intel)

This week we have four newcomers in our chart.

The Big Short is the most downloaded movie.

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	(2)	The Big Short (DVDscr)	8.1 / trailer
2	(1)	Spectre	7.9 / trailer
3	(…)	Ride Along 2	5.8 / trailer
4	(3)	The Revenant (DVDscr)	?.? / trailer
5	(6)	The Martian	8.2 / trailer
6	(4)	The Intern	7.4 / trailer
7	(…)	Creed (DVDscr)	8.0 / trailer
8	(8)	Bridge of Spies	7.9 / trailer
9	(…)	Lazer Team	7.1 / trailer
10	(…)	Sisters (Webrip)	6.5 / trailer

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

Die Antwort auf den Airbus 320neo ist abgehoben: Boeings neue 737 hat ihren ersten Flug absolviert. (Boeing, Internet)