Month: January 2017

In diesem Jahr wird die Anzahl der Wiedergabegeräte, die auch die 4K-UHD-Blu-ray-Discs abspielen können, vermutlich deutlich steigen. Mit erstaunlich langem Abstand ist auch Sony so weit. Dafür gibt es zusätzlich Unterstützung für die alte Super Audio CD und ein altes DVD-Format. (UHD-Blu-ray, Sony)

Ungewöhnliche Konzepte, die Aufsehen erregen: Razers Project Valerie ist quasi ein Blade-Pro-17-Notebook mit Triple-4K-Panels. Und bei Razers Project Ariana erweitert ein Beamer ausgewählte Spiele rund um einen Monitor. (Razer, Notebook)

ZTE entlässt Tausende - offenbar auch Beschäftigte außerhalb Chinas, die zu Huawei wechseln wollten. Es sei die größte Krise in der 31-jährigen Unternehmensgeschichte, sagt der Aufsichtsratschef. (ZTE, IBM)

Nokia verkauft wieder Smartphones - allerdings nicht in Deutschland und nicht direkt. Nokia 6 heißt das erste Smartphone des finnischen Herstellers MHD Global. Das Mittelklasse-Smartphone läuft mit Android und soll in den kommenden Wochen in den Verkauf gehen. (Nokia, Smartphone)

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

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

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

This week’s most downloaded movies are:

Movie Rank	Rank last week	Movie name	IMDb Rating / Trailer
Most downloaded movies via torrents
1	(1)	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Subbed HDRip)	6.3 / trailer
2	(3)	The Accountant	7.6 / trailer
3	(7)	Keeping Up with the Joneses	5.8 / trailer
4	(…)	The Girl on The Train	6.6 / trailer
5	(2)	Deepwater Horizon	7.4 / trailer
6	(8)	Doctor Strange (HDTS)	8.0 / trailer
7	(…)	Fences (DVDscr)	7.8 / trailer
8	(4)	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (HDTS)	8.3 / trailer
9	(…)	Death Race 2050	?.? / trailer
10	(6)	The Magnificent Seven	7.1 / trailer

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

Zig Millionen Nutzer schnell und flächendeckend mit Kabel versorgen - das hat vor 25 Jahren schon mal geklappt. Beim Breitbandausbau funktioniert das nur nicht, weil die offensichtlich beste Lösung nicht genutzt wird. (IMHO, DSL)

Der VW-Bus der Zukunft fährt elektrisch. Der Akku des achtsitzigen Fahrzeugs soll in einer halben Stunde auf 80 Prozent aufgeladen werden. Der Minibus soll mit zwei Motoren allradgetrieben fahren, kommt vermutlich aber erst 2025 auf den Markt. (VW, Technologie)

Das smarte Zuhause rückt mit Apples Homekit zwar näher, doch viele Hersteller unterstützen inkompatible Protokolle. Der Mixtile Hub soll das ändern: Er beherrscht die Funkprotokolle Zigbee, WLAN, Bluetooth und Z-Wave und bindet sie in Homekit-Umgebungen ein. (CES 2017, Siri)

Könnten mehr Elektroautos in Deutschland verkauft werden, wenn Hersteller verpflichtet würden, eine Quote zu erfüllen? Diesen Ansatz verfolgt Bundesumweltministerin Barbara Hendricks (SPD). (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Due to the public nature of BitTorrent transfers, it’s easy to see what people behind a certain IP-address are downloading.

Last month we reported about a new website that puts this information on public display. According to its operators, this information can help rightholders and law enforcement to track down pirates.

In response, we decided to do some field work to see if downloads are also linked to more unusual locations, and the answer is YES.

To the Department of Homeland Security, for example, which helped to bring down KickassTorrents a few months ago. While it’s not a place where you would expect people to be torrenting, the spy tool suggests otherwise.

We could easily spot several IP-addresses that list over a dozen recent ‘downloads’ of copyrighted material. This includes popular films, TV-series and music, but also porn and far more worrying content.

The screenshot below lists an overview of the recent torrents that are tied to a single Homeland Security IP-address. As you can see, it lists several files including the film ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Bad Santa.’ But we’ve also seen a copy of the film Let’s Be Cops and a discography of the heavy metal band Dio.

A few DHS downloads

It’s worth mentioning that BitTorrent monitoring tools are regularly discredited for being prone to errors. They often don’t check whether a full copy has been downloaded, for example.

Mistakes also appeared in the ‘I Know What You Download‘ database, which previously listed downloads for several non-routable IP-addresses they picked up via DHT tracking.

However, the company’s Marketing director Andrey Rogov is confident that the DHS IPs are indeed sharing (parts of) these files.

“These reports are accurate,” Rogov tells us. “They contain information about the downloading or distribution activities of IP-addresses, for all torrents which we could classify for the last 30 days.”

The company also provided us with extra information showing combinations of specific ports and IP-addresses, which refutes the defense that a tracker added these IP-addresses as fake data.

Since Homeland Security employs more than 230,000 people, finding a pirating IP-address is hardly a surprise. In fact, there are many more in the ‘I Know What You Download’ database. This is also true for other United States Government branches.

Take The House of Representatives, for example, where adult material, Snoop Dogg, and several movies are listed as recent downloads. Again, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

A few House downloads

In the end, the most sensible conclusion is that you’re going to find pirates in any large organization or institution. Even in the very place that just dismantled the largest torrent site on the Internet.

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