Month: May 2016
Delock DL-89456: Netzwerkkarte für 2.5 und 5GbE
Bezahlsystem: Apple will Pay zügig in Europa ausweiten
Überwachung: Aufregung um Intermediate-Zertifikat für Bluecoat
Police Target 50 Streaming Sites, Detain Five Suspects
Police in Italy are reporting the execution of a large operation against a network offering live sports, movies and TV shows online without permission. The Guardia di Finanza say they targeted 50 sites running on 41 servers located on three continents. Five suspects were detained in what police estimate to be a 40 million euro business.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
While torrents remain popular with millions of file-sharers, cheaper bandwidth and faster Internet connections have contributed to an explosion of content being streamed online.
Today there are thousands of sites offering huge libraries of unauthorized content, all of it available via a YouTube-like interface accessible via any Internet browser. With a non-existent learning curve, it’s piracy anyone can get involved in.
As a result these kinds of sites can quickly gain a massive following and efforts to hinder their operations continue every day. With millions of links being removed from search engines and site-blocking a regular occurrence, other more aggressive options are also regularly explored.
Currently that is the stance of prosecutors in Rome, Italy, who say they have carried out a large operation to shut down a network of sites offering live sports events, movies, TV shows and concerts without permission from copyright holders.
Titled Operation Match Off 2.0, the action was carried out by the Comando Unità Speciali (Special Command Unit) of the Guardia di Finanza (GdF), a department under Italy’s Minister of Economy and Finance tasked with dealing with financial crime.
According to GdF the operation targeted 50 sites running on 41 servers located on three continents. Three servers were seized locally in Italy. After raids were carried out in a number of regions across the country, five suspects were detained. Further details on the sites and the suspects are yet to be released.
The sites are said to have offered live streaming of sports, on-demand content such as movies and TV shows, plus scheduling features in return for a ten euro payment per month. Italian authorities say the equivalent official offering would cost nearer 100 euros.
GdF report that the five suspects had built of a “vast network” of users and were generating huge profits from them.
“To understand the scope of the operation we detected the presence of more than 340,000 registered users within a community,” GdF said in a statement.
“Assuming that everyone had an illegal ‘subscription’, you can, with a simple calculation, estimate that the turnover is nearly €3,500,000 monthly ($3.89m), or more than €40,000,000 ($44.46) per year.”
Should they be found guilty, the five suspects would face fines and up to four years in prison.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 05/30/16
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi’ ‘Zootopia’ completes the top three.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
This week we have three newcomers in our chart.
X-Men: Apocalypse 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 |
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1 | (6) | X-Men: Apocalypse (HDCam) | 7.7 / trailer |
2 | (…) | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | 7.4 / trailer |
3 | (1) | Zootopia | 8.3 / trailer |
4 | (2) | Captain America: Civil War (TC) | 8.4 / trailer |
5 | (…) | Hardcore Henry (HDrip – subbed) | 7.0 / trailer |
6 | (…) | The Do Over (Webrip) | 6.0 / trailer |
7 | (3) | Gods of Egypt | 5.6 / trailer |
8 | (10) | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (TS) | 7.5 / trailer |
9 | (8) | Deadpool | 8.6 / trailer |
10 | (7) | How To Be Single (Web-DL) | 6.2 / trailer |
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Virtual Reality: Googles Daydream benötigt neues Smartphone
Bei Google herrscht offenbar ordentliches Durcheinander: Anders als bisher behauptet, gibt es derzeit noch keine Daydream-fähigen Smartphones. Diese werden wohl erst im Herbst 2016 kommen. (Google I/O, Google)
Cortex-A73 Artemis: ARMs neuer High-End-CPU-Kern für 2017
Effizienter, kompakter und sparsamer: ARMs neuer CPU-Kern Cortex-A73 für Smartphones schlägt den bisherigen Cortex-A72 in allen Belangen. Hintergrund ist neben der 10-nm-Fertigung eine in vielen Punkten überarbeitete Micro-Architektur. (Prozessor, Smartphone)
Tony Fadell: iPod-Erfinder baut Elektro-Gokarts für Kinder
Erst iPods, dann Thermostate und nun Gokarts: Der ehemalige Apple-Manager Tony Fadell ist in vielen Branchen unterwegs. Aktuell unterstützt er das Unternehmen Actev Motors, das mit dem Arrow ein elektrisches Gokart für Kinder baut, das über eine App kontrolliert werden kann. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
Riesiges Produktionsgebäude: Ende Juli wird die Tesla Gigafactory eröffnet
Die Tesla Gigafactory soll am 29. Juli 2016 offiziell eröffnet werden. Dort werden Lithium-Ionen-Akkus und Akkupacks für Teslas Elektrofahrzeuge gebaut. Geladen sind auch Käufer, die mindestens fünf Neukunden geworben haben. Die Gigafactory soll das größte Produktionsgebäude weltweit werden. (Tesla Motors, GreenIT)
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