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Trotz fieser Angriffsmöglichkeiten mit der Kettensäge und sehr viel Blut: Das Actionspiel Doom erscheint in Deutschland ohne inhaltliche Schnitte mit einer Freigabe “ab 18”. Auch Informationen über die Sprachfassungen liegen vor. (Doom, Jugendschutz)
Robotisches Gehen ist eine Spezialität des US-Unternehmens Boston Dynamics. Der überarbeitete Humanoide Atlas läuft auch in unwegsamem Gelände sicher. (Boston Dynamics, Roboter)
Fujitsu will seine Venenscanner-Technik nun auch zur Authentifizierung von Zahlungsmitteln in Europa testen und zeigt die Technik deswegen in Barcelona. Kreditkarten könnten damit überflüssig werden. Einige Visionen sehen sogar vor, dass per Venenscan Geld abgehoben werden könnte. (Zahlungssysteme, Scanner)
The Antigua-based software company SlySoft has shut down its website and ceased sales of the popular Blu-ray ripping software AnyDVD. The action comes several days after a group of Hollywood studios and technology partners asked the U.S. Government to intervene.
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Earlier this month AACS LA, the decryption licensing outfit founded by a group of movie studios and technology partners including Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, reminded the U.S. Government about the unauthorized activities of SlySoft.
SlySoft is known for selling various copyright protection circumvention tools including the popular AnyDVD software, of which it sold tens of thousands of copies over the years.
In 2014 AACS-LA won a court case against the software manufacturer in Antigua, where a local court found SlySoft owner Giancarla Bettini guilty of six charges under the 2003 Copyright Act and ordered him to pay a fine of $5,000 per offense. Failure to pay would result in six months in jail for each offense.
However, despite the win for AACS not much changed. SlySoft’s owner immediately filed an appeal which effectively put the convictions on hold. Meanwhile, AnyDVD remained widely available.
This changed yesterday when the site suddenly went blank as the domain’s main nameservers were removed. Initially it was unclear what triggered the downtime, but a few hours ago SlySoft put up a brief statement confirming an early Myce report that legal problems are the cause.
“Due to recent regulatory requirements we have had to cease all activities relating to SlySoft Inc. We wish to thank our loyal customers/clients for their patronage over the years,” the message of the site’s homepage reads.
While there’s no confirmation on the exact reason for the sudden shutdown, it’s not unlikely that AACS-LA’s pressure to the United States Trade Representative had a significant impact.
In its request the licensing company asks the Government to place Antigua on its copyright Priority Watch List, effectively escalating it into an “international incident”.
“Circumvention through programs such as SlySoft’s AnyDVD HD is a source for widespread, large-scale and commercial copyright infringement by users located in the United States, as well as Antigua & Barbuda, and many other countries,” AACS wrote (pdf).
“Such circumvention also harms the legitimate consumer electronics and information technology companies that build compliant content playback devices that ‘play by the rules’.”
With or without an intervention from the U.S. Government, it’s clear that after more than a decade the legal pressure became too much for SlySoft and its owner. Whether the software will remain offline indefinitely or if it will perhaps reappear under a new label has yet to be seen.
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Sigma hat mit der Quattro-H eine Systemkamera mit einer Auflösung von 51 Megapixeln und einem dreilagigen Foveon-Sensor vorgestellt. Die ebenfalls neue sd Quattro kommt auf 39 Megapixel. (Systemkamera, Digitalkamera)
Amazon hat sieben eigene Modelabels gegründet und will künftig Damen, Herren und Kinder einkleiden. Vor einiger Zeit startete Amazon bereits die Elektronikmarke Basics. Ziel ist in beiden Fällen, günstige, aber hochwertige Produkte in großen Mengen abzusetzen. (Amazon, Wirtschaft)
Watch the next-generation Atlas robot take a stroll through the snow.
Boston Dynamics—part of Google's robotics division—has shown off the newest version of its "Atlas" bipedal robot. In a video posted to the company's YouTube page, the next-generation Atlas takes a stroll through the snow, recovers from a few slips, and even squats down to pick up a 10 pound-box.
This "next-generation" Atlas is a refinement of the old Atlas model, which was unveiled to the world in 2013. The old Atlas was a bit of a giant—it was 6 feet tall and weighed 330 pounds. The new Atlas is a lot closer to an average human, at just 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds. This is also the first Atlas model to be equipped with a LIDAR system—a spinning metal can embedded in the robot's head.
The new Atlas goes through quite a gauntlet of tests in the video. After taking a walk over some rough, snowy terrain, a Boston Dynamics employee pushes it backwards with a hockey stick and smacks its toy box out of its hands. After being pushed so hard and taking a header into the floor, the robot shows it is still capable of picking itself up and going back to work.
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