Die neuen Antennen vom Typ LampSite 3.0 wurden in Tokio vorgestellt. Durch 256 QAM lässt sich mehr als ein Gigabit pro Sekunde über LTE übertragen. Mehrere Netzbetreiber können sich so die besten Antennenstandorte teilen. (Mobilfunk, Huawei) Month: November 2016
Lawyer who argued for landmark SCOTUS privacy decision says Trump “is a moron”
Pivotal judge in 1967 Katz case says privacy will be a “tough ride” from here.
In the world of American privacy law, one Supreme Court decision casts a long shadow over all others: Katz v. United States.
In that decision, which was handed down in December 1967, the court famously held that the Fourth Amendment “protects people rather than places.” Katz countermanded a previous Supreme Court ruling from 1928, which required a physical trespass to prove a Fourth Amendment violation.
In Katz, because the FBI placed secret microphones without a warrant on a Los Angeles phone booth to investigate Charles Katz’ illegal gambling, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision. The court found that a telephone booth was, in fact, a place (like a bedroom) where a person has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”
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Souq.com: Amazon verhandelt Übernahme für 1 Milliarde US-Dollar
Amazon will sich in einen Bereich der Welt ausdehnen, wo der Onlinehandelskonzern bisher noch nicht vorkommt. Die Gespräche mit Souq.com laufen. (Squawkr Alerts You When a Pirated Movie Leaks Online
Are you wondering when the latest blockbuster movies will leak online? Then Squawkr might be something for you. The new service allows people to maintain a watchlist of films and sends alerts when a high-quality scene release appears online.
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Unlike official distribution channels, pirate sites don’t have fixed calendar showing when a certain film will leak online.
Instead, pirates and pirate watchers can be found regularly browsing their favorite websites, to see if something of interest appears. A cumbersome task, although it does have its charms.
With Squawkr, however, movie fans now have the option to outsource this manual search labor. Instead, they just make a list of their most anticipated titles. Squawkr will then send an alert once a scene release becomes available.
TorrentFreak reached out to Jakob, the developer of the site, who says that the simplicity of the platform is one of its main selling points.
“I wanted to make Squawkr simple and easy to use, while being a powerful tool. It’s very intuitive. Just log in, start adding movies and get notified. That’s it,” Jacob says.
The idea for Squawkr started about a year ago, when Jacob used to spend many hours searching for high-quality leaks, often without luck.
“Torrent sites are flooded with Cam rips and WEB-DLs, which is fine for people who like to watch those. But for someone who enjoys true HD movies, it can be a bit of a pain to go through all the crap, just to find the needle in the haystack.”
Since he couldn’t develop in PHP, Ajax and jQuery, the first six months were put into mastering the basic coding skills. Jakob then spent another half year improving the functionality and design.
The result is what people see today, and it’s indeed quite intuitive. After logging in users can start adding movie titles, which is pretty much all there is to it.
The site is focused on high-quality releases, mostly BluRay and DVD rips, and allows users to distinguish between 720p and 1080p quality. Other formats, such as WEB-DLs, could follow in the future if there is a high demand, but these will always be separate from the core experience.
After a movie is added to the watchlist Squawkr regularly polls the PreDB database of scene releases. When a movie is available in the desired format, the service sends a notification via email.
What started as a relatively small coding challenge has now turned into something more serious. After receiving positive feedback and requests from early users in the Piracy and HTPC subreddits, Jakob started to add more features.
PushBullet and Pushover notifications were introduced, for example, as well as a notifications archive where people can keep track of the alerts.
Another advantage is that the site is free to use, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. That said, donations are always welcome.
As for the legal side, Jakob is aware of the risks. He consulted a lawyer before going live with the service, who advised him to be cautious. However, since there are no links to any pirated files on the site, no real problems are expected in his home country of Denmark.
Jakob prefers to focus on the positive instead. He hopes that a lot of people will appreciate his work. In a way, he is doling out gifts on a daily basis, which is a good fit for the festive season.
“When you receive Squawkr notifications about your most anticipated movies from your watchlist, it’s like receiving a little present in your inbox. It’s fun,” he concludes.
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Pinebook: Laptop mit ARM-Prozessor für unter 100 US-Dollar angekündigt
Der Hersteller Pine kündigt einen Linux-Laptop mit einem 64-Bit-Allwinner-Prozessor an. Die Pläne des Herstellers könnten aber zu optimistisch sein. (
Quake (1996): Urknall für Mouselook, Mods und moderne 3D-Grafik
Es bebt: Wir beginnen die dritte Staffel unserer Videoreihe über bedeutsame Pixel-Klassiker mit Quake, das seinerzeit als ideenloser Nachfolger gebrandmarkt wurde und doch für zahlreiche Innovationen steht. (Quake, Spieletest)
Es bebt: Wir beginnen die dritte Staffel unserer Videoreihe über bedeutsame Pixel-Klassiker mit Quake, das seinerzeit als ideenloser Nachfolger gebrandmarkt wurde und doch für zahlreiche Innovationen steht. (Quake, Spieletest) Weekly News Roundup (November 27, 2016)
From ridiculous DRM requirements to ridiculous wastes of time, read the news roundup for the week ending November 27, 2016
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From ridiculous DRM requirements to ridiculous wastes of time, read the news roundup for the week ending November 27, 2016
4shared Defends Unwanted Piracy Record, Complains of ‘Bogus’ Requests
File sharing provider 4shared has defended itself after the site recently surpassed 50 million removal requests via Google’s DMCA take-down tool.While 4shared clearly hosts a sizable amount of pirated content, a record the company is not prou…
File sharing provider 4shared has defended itself after the site recently surpassed 50 million removal requests via Google's DMCA take-down tool.
While 4shared clearly hosts a sizable amount of pirated content, a record the company is not proud of, it also provides one of the best anti-piracy take-down tools for sites of this nature.
Speaking to TorrentFreak, 4shared expressed their dismay at rights-holders choosing to use Google's take-down system as opposed to their own, more efficient and direct system.
"Complaining to Google is not effective if your goal is to remove a file asap,” 4shared’s Mike told TorrentFreak. "It only removes the link from search results in Google, while sending a complaint directly means a quick block of the link itself."
The same rights-holders have also complained to the U.S. government about 4shared, getting the site added to the the "notorious piracy markets" list.
4shared also expressed their frustration at the high number of take-down requests submitted to Google, explaining that many of them are simply bogus and point to pages on the site that does not provide any downloads.
"What we can see is that numerous complaints provide a redundant volume of links that look like some machine-built template as well as a large amount of non-informative links to various parts of the 4shared website," says Mike.
"The organization APDIF do Brasil, which is the top reporter, submits absolutely meaningless complaints where obviously a bot cycles some keyword through all possible variations of search requests without leading to any specific file which may be copyright-protected."
Of the 50 million plus URLs requested to be removed from Google, APDIF do Brasil's submissions account for 70% of these.
4shared says other anti-piracy firms, which rights-holders outsource the work of identifying and removing pirated content to, are also guilty of the same practice.
4shared urges rights-holders and agents acting on their behalf to deal directly with the site.
[via TorrentFreak]
Mob violence observed in gorillas for the first time
The emergence of multi-male groups seems to lead to a new kind of aggression.
Enlarge / A gorilla mob surrounding a victim (credit: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International)
Inshuti, a lone silverback, couldn't accept that he wasn't welcome. When he approached the Beetsme gorilla group, its males made it clear that they didn't want him around. Inshuti followed them nonetheless, and that seemed OK—at first.
But then the screaming started. Observers from the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda watched as Inshuti sped away, pursued by three males from the Beetsme group. As the males pinned him to the ground, the rest of the group (including females and juveniles) caught up with them and attacked Inshuti as a mob. The alpha male bit into Inshuti and shook him like a wolf shakes its prey.
“It was hands-down the most surprising and disturbing thing that I have ever seen in my years in the forest,” says Stacy Rosenbaum, who researches social behavior in gorillas. Seeing an entire group attack in coordination was totally unheard of—and this is a gorilla population that has been under close observation since Dian Fossey started studying them in the 1960s. If the gorillas had been doing this kind of thing in the preceding 40 years, someone would have noticed.
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Hosting Companies Dragged into Piracy Lawsuit Alongside Cloudflare
A lawsuit that accuses Cloudflare of providing services to alleged ‘pirate’ sites has been expanded. In an amended complaint, adult outfit ALS Scan now seeks to hold hosting providers OVH and Steadfast Networks liable for infringement, alongside operators and affiliates of several image hosting sites.
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Faced with non-cooperative ‘pirate’ sites, copyright holders have begun targeting web services with demands for them to stop serving errant platforms.
A lot of attention has focused on search engines, domain name registrars, and advertisers, who are frequently asked to do more to counter online piracy.
This summer, adult entertainment publisher ALS Scan took it up a notch, taking legal steps to hold several third-party services accountable for the actions of several pirate sites “with no apparent function other than to display infringing [ALS] adult content.”
In a complaint filed at a California federal court, ALS Scan targeted CloudFlare and the advertising network JuicyAds over image copyright infringement carried out by the users of pirate sites (full list below) they service.
“The pirate sites would not be able to thrive were it not for third party service providers who provide valuable services to these sites,” ALS wrote.
Last month, JuicyAds was cleared of any wrongdoing and the case against it was dismissed. However, Cloudflare is still a defendant and in an amended complaint filed earlier this month, other companies have now been dragged into the dispute.
First up is well-known hosting provider OVH, which made the headlines earlier this month when it was targeted by police seeking to shut down private tracker What.cd. ALS Scan says that OVH (based in France and Canada) is responsible for providing hosting and related services to pirate sites.
Also under fire is United States hosting provider Steadfast Networks. According to ALS, like OVH this Chicago-based company also hosts illegal sites, including “pirate” image hosting platform Imagebam.com. This is a very popular site indeed, currently ranked #680 in the world by SimilarWeb with more than 40m visits per month.
According to ALS, Dolphin Media Ltd is the Hong Kong-based company behind an image hosting site operating from Imgchilli.net. Again, ALS characterizes this as a pirate platform but instead of Dolphin merely being the host, it’s claimed the company also owns and operates the service.
Finally, ALS names Hivelocity Ventures as a new defendant. According to the adult outfit, Hivelocity hosts ‘pirate’ sites including namethatpornstar.com.
“The pirate sites would not be able to thrive were it not for third party service providers who provide valuable services to these sites. These third party providers include hosts and content delivery networks,” the amended complaint reads.
According to ALS, when Cloudflare learned of this lawsuit its lawyers contacted ALS offering to hand over the information it holds on the pirate sites in question, but only in exchange for a release of liability. While that doesn’t appear to have been granted, Cloudflare did begin to play ball.
“Eventually Cloudflare identified the OVH Companies as the primary host of some of the sites in question,” the company adds, noting that despite “numerous notifications of infringement”, OVH has continued to provide hosting services to pirate sites.
“On information and belief, the OVH Companies have failed to implement and enforce a repeat infringer policy,” ALS adds.
US-based host Steadfast Networks is subjected to the same criticism. The company allegedly received numerous infringement notifications on which it failed to act, and has failed to “implement or enforce a repeat infringer policy by removing Imagebam.com from its servers.”
In respect of ImgChilli and owner Dolphin, ALS has nothing good to say either.
“This is no site like dropbox.com, however, which caters to consumers who want to share family pictures or personal oversize files. Instead, Dolphin offers to pay imgchili.net members $4.50 per thousand views of images uploaded to imgchili.net,” the complaint reads.
“Dolphin is not offering to pay members money for page views of uploaded materials to encourage consumers to share pictures of their vacations. On information and belief, Dolphin provides monetary incentives to induce members to steal and upload massive galleries of infringing adult content.”
In summary, ALS says that while some of the defendants may claim safe harbor under the DMCA, they do not qualify for its protections.
“ALS denies that any would apply, but if they do, such safe harbors have been lost through ignoring red flags of infringement, ignoring actual notifications of infringement, failure to adopt and reasonably implement a repeat infringer policy and failure to accommodate, and interference with, standard technical measures,” the amended complaint reads.
If successful, ALS is demanding actual damages of no less than $10m, statutory damages, disgorgement of defendants’ profits, trebling of damages, costs and attorneys’ fees, plus preliminary and permanent injunctive relief.
The full list of the pirate sites in the complaint:
a. imgchili.net (Dolphin, Cloudflare, OVH)
b. namethatpornstar.com (Hivelocity)
c. slimpics.com (Cloudflare)
d. cumonmy.com (Cloudflare)
e. bestofsexpics.com (Cloudflare)
f. stooorage.com (Cloudflare, OVH)
g. greenpiccs.com (Cloudflare)
h. imagebam.com (Steadfast)
i. imgsen.se (Cloudflare)
j. imgspice.com (Cloudflare)
k. imgspot.org (Cloudflare)
l. img.yt (Cloudflare)
m. vipergirls.to (Cloudflare)
n. pornwire.net (Cloudflare)
o. fboom.me (Cloudflare)
p. imgflash.net (Cloudflare)
q. imgtrex.com (Cloudflare)
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