Month: November 2016

Das World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hat den Standardisierungsprozess von HTML 5.1 abgeschlossen. Die aktuelle HTML-Empfehlung bietet das neue picture-Element. Damit können Webinhalte besser an Gerätetypen angepasst werden. Zudem gibt es Elemente, die den Einsatz von Javascript unnötig machen. (HTML5, Technologie)

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In this episode we meet Mike Bonanno, aka Igor Vamos, one half of the dynamic, culture jamming activist duo The Yes Men. To date, they’ve produced three films: The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) and The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014).

In these films, they impersonate entities that they dislike, a practice that they call “identity correction”. In reality The Yes Men are maybe the original mass media trolls,  having successfully flummoxed the BBC, Chamber of Commerce, and even George W. Bush. But it’s trickery for good causes, from raising awareness around the Bhopals disaster to global warming.

After a news roundup from Jamie (AT&T/Time Warner merger, Pirate Party showing in Iceland elections, and copyright lobbies going after core Internet infrastructure) the episode explores the increasing power of media activists and the capacity figures like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have to affect the political stage. It’s a  bumper episode of STEAL THIS SHOW, weighing in at about 1hr 15mins. Some fun topics:

• The origins of The Yes Men in a bizarre, pornographic, surrealist piece of videogame sabotage;
• The Yes Men’s dubious claim to be the internet’s Original Trolls.;
• Trolling George W. Bush as a claim to fame;
• How to knock billions of dollars off  Fortune 100 company;
• The perils of liberating porn, and why you just do not (ahem) fuck with Big Porno;
• What it’s like to visit Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy.

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.

Host: Jamie King

Guest: Mike Bonanno

Produced by Jamie King
Edited & Mixed by Riley Byrne
Original Music by David Triana
Web Production by Siraje Amarniss

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Eine Malware-Kampagne, die sich gegen Apple-Nutzer richtet, bietet gefälschte Versionen von Googles Chrome-Browser. Dabei nutzten die Betrüger ausgerechnet Googles Adword-Anzeigen, um Opfer hereinzulegen. (Malware, Virus)

Nvidia hat mit seinem neuen Pixelbeschleuniger alles richtig gemacht. Mehr als genügend Geschwindigkeit für 1080p-Gaming, eine Leistungsaufnahme von nur 60 Watt und Funktionen für Let's Player. Einzig der Preis könnte etwas niedriger ausfallen. (Nvidia Pascal, Grafikhardware)

Youtube Red, der werbefreie Zugang zu Youtube, zeigt nach einem Jahr kein sehr starkes Wachstum. Doch der Betreiber gibt sich optimistisch und will nach Europa expandieren. (Youtube, Film)

Pirate movie streaming sites and services continue to gain popularity, with 123movies at the forefront of this movement.

Hollywood is not happy with this trend and reported the site to the U.S. Government’s Trade Representative last month, labeling it one of the most “notorious” pirate markets.

“123movies is a very popular streaming website that embeds popular movie and series content from third-party cyberlockers,” the MPAA wrote.

In addition, the movie industry group applied to have 123movies blocked by UK ISPs. In response, the High Court ordered the website to be blocked, alongside a dozen other streaming portals.

The people behind 123movies, who prefer to remain anonymous, fear that the blockade will hurt their visitor numbers so have decided to take counteraction. A few hours ago they started redirecting UK and Indian visitors to 123movies.gs, using a TLD from the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

The reason for the sudden move is clear, according to a site representative. “To give UK users a place to stream movies after the ban on 123movies.to,” we were told.

The .GS domain is not an arbitrary choice. The 123movies team believes that this is a relatively safe option. However, it’s worth noting that The Pirate Bay lost its .GS domain fairly quickly last year after the registry suspended it over copyright infringement issues.

With the switch, 123movies hopes to be safe for a while but they may have to relocate UK and Indian traffic again in the future.

The site’s operators say they don’t have a larger goal in mind for the site. Their main motivation is to provide free video content to the public at large, and with millions of visitors per day they are doing just that.

“We have no goal, we just want to provide free movies to users all around the world,” a 123movies representative told TorrentFreak.

“In some countries, it’s really expensive to buy a ticket at the cinema, and not all people can afford it. 123movies will help them to be able to enjoy their favorite movies at no cost.”

The Hollywood studios will cringe at 123movies’ deviant stance and are likely to take countermeasures of their own. In the UK they can request the new domain name to be blocked as well, which they are bound to do.

However, 123movies is not planning to give up anytime soon. They are thinking about starting a network of proxy sites, like The Pirate Bay has, to ensure that people will always be able to access the site.

And so it appears that Hollywood has another cat and mouse game on their hands…

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

Netflix-Kunden müssen sich noch etwas gedulden, irgendwann können sie aber Filme und Serien auch offline schauen. Ob diese Funktion auch für deutsche Kunden angeboten wird, ist allerdings noch unklar. (Netflix, Streaming)

Microsoft hat seine Slack-Alternative Teams gestartet, um bei der Onlinekommunikation von Arbeitsgruppen mitzuhalten. Teams kann beim Abschluss eines Office-365-Firmenabos kostenlos genutzt werden. (Office 365, Microsoft)

Der Zubehörhersteller Elgato hat mit Eve Motion einen akkubetriebenen Bewegungssensor vorgestellt, der mit Apple HomeKit kompatibel ist. So lassen sich automatisch Reaktionen auf die An- oder Anwesenheit des Nutzers hin auslösen. (Hausautomation, Apple TV)

Die Netatmo Presence ist eine wettertaugliche Überwachungskamera für draußen, die einzelne Bildbereiche separat überwachen kann. Dank Objekterkennung kann sie zwischen Menschen, Autos und Tieren unterscheiden und den Besitzer über die Ereignisse per App benachrichtigen. (Videoüberwachung, Server)