Month: December 2016

There are several most important things at home and office that you should make sure to fulfill them if you want your family members or office worker to live and work healthy. Those including the quality of the air in the surrounding, which make sure they can breath the best and fresh air to maximize […]

Eine POTS-Karte (Plain Old Telephony Service), die in Verteilern in den Vermittlungsstellen eingebaut wird, ermöglicht, das Menschen die nur telefonieren wollen, dies auch im All-IP-Netz der Telekom können. (All-IP, Telekom)

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Kopfhörer mit aktivier Geräuschunterdrückung sollen das Arbeiten im Büro und das Fliegen angenehmer machen. Das funktioniert zum Teil gar nicht schlecht, hat jedoch seinen Preis - wie Golem.de im großen Praxistest mit sechs Geräten festgestellt hat. (Kopfhörer, Skype)

Nach den Oberklassegeräten der ME-Serie bringt Gigaset mit dem GS160 ein neues Android-Smartphone im Einsteigerbereich in den Handel. Das Gerät kostet 150 Euro, hat dafür aber einen Fingerabdrucksensor, LTE-Unterstützung, Dual-SIM-Funktion und eine 13-Megapixel-Kamera. (Gigaset, Smartphone)

Autonomes Fahren ohne Genehmigung? Auf keinen Fall. Die kalifornische Verkehrsbehörde hat Uber verboten, autonome Autos einzusetzen. Uber hatte geglaubt, keine Genehmigung zu brauchen. Die Technik scheint auch noch ihre Schwächen zu haben. (Uber, Auto)

Um den Vorwurf zu laxer Sicherheitsregeln aus der Welt zu räumen, hat sich das Seitensprungportal mit der US-Behörde FTC und zuständigen Staatsanwälten auf die Zahlung geeinigt. Ein Eingeständnis für Fehler sei das aber nicht. (Security, FTC)

Es gibt schon länger Berichte aus anonymen Quellen, nun geht ein ehemaliger Angestellter von Crytek an die Öffentlichkeit: Ludvig Lindqvist will per Crowdfunding 20.000 Euro sammeln, um seinen ehemaligen Arbeitgeber auf Auszahlung ausstehender Gehälter zu verklagen. (Crytek, Games)

Aufatmen bei den Nutzern: Die Betriebssystemversion MacOS 10.12.2 sorgt offenbar für eine längere Akkulaufzeit des Macbook Pro. Zuvor hatten Anwender teilweise massiv geringere Laufzeiten zu verzeichnen als von Apple angegeben. (Macbook, Apple)

It’s been several years in the making and a move that required legislative change and cooperation between rightsholders and ISPs, but Australians will soon be subjected to the site-blocking phenomenon.

Following a case brought by rightsholders including Roadshow Films, Foxtel, Disney, Paramount, Columbia, and 20th Century Fox, more than fifty Internet service providers Down Under are now required to start barring subscriber access to ‘pirate’ sites.

In an order handed down a few hours ago, Justice John Nicholas of the Federal Court ruled that The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and streaming service SolarMovie will all have to be rendered inaccessible to consumers in Australia. The same applies to dozens of affiliated and non-affiliated proxy and mirror sites.

The decision, however, was not without its complications. Torrentz, TorrentHound, and Solarmovie have all shut down since the beginning of the legal action.

In the end, the Judge concluded there was a risk that the platforms could rise again so agreed to a ban. However, a small number of inactive Pirate Bay proxies and mirrors were excluded as no evidence of infringing activity was presented against them in Court.

Ruling all of the remaining sites to based overseas and in breach of Australian copyright law, the Judge gave ISPs including Telstra, Optus, TPG and iiNet just 15 days to comply with the blocking order, meaning that the blocks could be put in place before the end of the year.

ISPs were given a choice over how to implement the blocks. The Judge said they must all take “reasonable” steps which include DNS blocking, IP address blocking (or IP re-routing), URL blocking, or “any alternative technical means” approved by a rightsholder.

The Judge also determined that when being denied access to a blocked site, consumers must be informed what is happening. As a result, ISPs will either have to redirect subscribers to a landing page or, alternatively, redirect them to a page put in place by rightsholders.

The big argument over who will pay for the blockades has also been settled. The Internet service providers will all have to foot the bill for putting their own blocking mechanisms in place but rightsholders must pay AUS$50 per domain moving forward. The rightsholders were also ordered to pay the ISPs’ legal costs.

Today’s ruling and these initial blockades represent the beginning of mass site-blocking in Australia. Rightsholders re-attending Court to have more sites blocked is likely to become a regular occurrence in 2017 and beyond.

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