Month: October 2016

Daimler investiert in Elektromobilität: Der Konzern baut eine neue Akkufabrik, wo unter anderem Akkus für die Elektroautos der künftigen Modellreihe EQ hergestellt werden sollen. Betrieben wird sie unter anderem mit Solarstrom. (Mercedes Benz, Elektroauto)

Private TV-Anbieter verdoppeln ihre Reichweite im Vergleich zur heutigen DVB-T-Infrastruktur. Der technische Umstieg auf DVB-T2 erfolgt laut Betreibern in den Morgenstunden des 29. März 2017. Die DVB-T-Verbreitung der privaten TV-Programme endet an diesem Tag bundesweit. (DVB-T, H.265)

Yuneec bewirbt seinen neuen Quadcopter Breeze 4K als "fliegende Kamera" - an rasante Drohnen anderer Hersteller erinnert er eher wenig. Dafür können auch unerfahrene Piloten für einen verhältnismäßig niedrigen Preis gutes Videomaterial aufnehmen. (Drohne, Test)

Auf Reddit hat sich Elon Musk den Fragen zu dem geplanten Marsraumschiff und der Kolonialisierung des Mars gestellt. (SpaceX, Raumfahrt)

Der Zugang zum IoT-Botnetz Mirai setzt neuerdings keine technischen Kenntnisse mehr voraus, sondern nur genügend Finanzmittel - 7.500 US-Dollar. Außerdem bestätigte ein chinesischer Hersteller, dass seine Geräte Teil des Botnets sind und sagt: "Mirai ist ein Desaster für das IoT". (Mirai-Botnetz, Server-Applikationen)

Despite the growing availability of legal music services in many countries, record labels are facing a constant stream of pirated music.

In an attempt to prevent these infringements, BPI and other music industry groups send millions of takedown notices to Internet services every month.

Although several major search engines are targeted, most of these requests are directed at Google. The numbers are quite staggering, and over the past few hours UK music industry group BPI hit a new milestone.

BPI just crossed the mark of 250,000,000 reported links, and is currently adding nearly three million new ones every week.

The majority of these allegedly copyright infringing URLs have been removed from Google’s search results. While this usually happens in a matter of hours, the music group believes that more should be done to address the underlying problem.

“Consumers are still too often directed towards the online black market when they search online for entertainment, rather than to legal services that reward artists and creators,” BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor informs TorrentFreak.

“The fact the BPI alone has now sent a quarter of a billion notices to Google to remove search results directing consumers to illegal copies of music – and almost as many again to Bing – demonstrates that there is a major problem underlying the UK digital economy,” he adds.

Copyright holder groups and search engines have organized several roundtable discussions in an attempt to find new solutions, but thus far without a satisfactory result for both sides.

In recent years Google has introduced a variety of tweaks and changes to the way its search engine operates. It downranks sites for which it receives a lot of takedown requests, for example. Similarly, it actively promotes legal content in search results.

However, BPI and other rightsholders would like search engines to go even further, by delisting pirate sites in their entirety or making sure that pirated content can’t simply reappear under a new URL.

Google is not willing to go this far, as it may lead to over-blocking and other problems, which has brought both camps to a stalemate.

BPI hopes that the UK Government can help to break this impasse. Lawmakers are currently working on a new and revised version of the Digital Economy Bill which could be used to address the search issue, by demanding a proactive stance from Google, Bing and others.

“The Digital Economy Bill which is before Parliament represents a real opportunity for Government to back the creative businesses that provide millions of UK jobs, by insisting that search engines put in place an effective Code of Practice to address this problem,” Taylor says.

While the search issue has been brought up in the recent discussions in parliament, there is no search engine related language in the current form of the bill. So for now, BPI has to keep adding to the quarter billion URLs they have targeted already, onto the next milestone.

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

An eine Art "Harry Potter Go" erinnert das Augmented-Reality-Projekt Maguss: Magier liefern sich Kämpfe mit Monstern, aber auch untereinander. Ein dänisches Entwicklerstudio sammelt Geld dafür - die Mindestsumme ist bereits erreicht. (Augmented Reality, Smartphone)

Keine Drohnenbilder mehr von den Schären oder aus Stockholm: Ein schwedisches Gericht hat geurteilt, dass Copter, die mit einer Kamera ausgestattet sind, nur mit einer Genehmigung und zum Zweck der Aufklärung von Straftaten betrieben werden dürfen. (Drohne, Foto)

Bei Asus gibt es aktuell keine Smartphones und Tablets in Deutschland zu kaufen - auf der Webseite sind die Geräte nicht gelistet, im Onlineshop können sie nicht bestellt werden. Grund sollen Patentprobleme sein, die offenbar mit der installierten Android-Version zusammenhängen. (Asus, Smartphone)

This week we have two newcomers in our chart.

Suicide Squad is the most downloaded movie for the third week in a row.

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 Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

Ranking	(last week)	Movie	IMDb Rating / Trailer
torrentfreak.com
1	(1)	Suicide Squad	6.7 / trailer
2	(…)	Bad Moms	6.5 / trailer
3	(2)	Don’t Breathe	7.5 / trailer
4	(…)	Sausage Party	6.7 / trailer
5	(4)	Star Trek Beyond	7.4 / trailer
6	(3)	Lights Out	6.6 / trailer
7	(6)	Mechanic: Resurrection	5.8 / trailer
8	(9)	Independence Day: Resurgence	5.4 / trailer
9	(10)	The Infiltrator	7.2 / trailer
10	(7)	Captain America: Civil War	8.1 / trailer

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