Month: January 2017

Um den Standort eines Autos zu überwachen, muss längst keine GPS-Wanze mehr angebracht werden. In den USA wird das offenbar schon lange mithilfe der intelligenten Navigations- und Bordsysteme praktiziert. (Überwachung, GPS)

Schläft der Fahrer? Ein neues Assistenzsystem soll erkennen, ob ein Autofahrer aufmerksam auf den Verkehr achtet oder ob er droht einzuschlafen. Das System liest seine Gedanken. (Automotive, Technologie)

Wie kriegt man Blizzard dazu, Spielern die Ursprungsversion von World of Warcraft zu erlauben? Darüber diskutieren Fans schon länger, nun wenden sich die Betreiber von stillgelegten Classic-Servern mit einer ungewöhnlichen Bitte an die Community. (WoW, MMORPG)

Fancy for a cute and adorable Android robot for your desk? If you are the fans of Android and LEGO, this new merchandise from Etsy is the best fit for you. This is a nice looking LEGO Android Robot which you can purchase it at Etsy. It’s coming in form of a building kit designed […]

Founded half a decade ago, Swefilmer grew to become Sweden’s most popular movie and TV show streaming site. Together with Dreamfilm, another site operating in the same niche, Swefilmer is said to have accounted for 25% of all web TV viewing in Sweden.

In the summer of 2015, local man Ola Johansson revealed that he’d been raided by the police under suspicion of being involved in running the site. In March 2015, a Turkish national was arrested in Germany on a secret European arrest warrant. The now 26-year-old was accused of receiving donations from users and setting up Swefilmer’s deals with advertisers.

In a subsequent indictment filed at the Varberg District Court, the men were accused of copyright infringement offenses relating to the unlawful distribution of more than 1,400 movies. However, just hours after the trial got underway last June, it was suspended, when a lawyer for one of the men asked to wait for an important EU copyright case to run its course.

That case, between Dutch blog GeenStijl.nl and Playboy, had seen a Dutch court ask the EU Court of Justice to rule whether unauthorized links to copyrighted content could be seen as a ‘communication to the public’ under Article 3(1) of the Copyright Directive, and whether those links facilitated copyright infringement.

Last September, the European Court of Justice ruled that it is usually acceptable to link to copyrighted content without permission when people are not aware content is infringing and when they do so on a non-profit basis. In commercial cases, the rules are much more strict.

The Swefilmer site

In light of that ruling, the pair return to the Varberg District Court today, accused of making more than $1.5m from their activities between November 2013 and June 2015.

While Swedish prosecutions against sites such as The Pirate Bay have made global headlines, the case against Swefilmer is the first of its kind against a stream-links portal. Prosecutor Anna Ginner and Rights Alliance lawyer Henrik Pontén believe they have the evidence needed to take down the pair.

“Swefilmer is a typical example of how a piracy operation looks today: fully commercial, well organized and great efforts expended to conceal itself. This applies particularly to the principal of the site,” Pontén told IDG.

According to Ginner, the pair ran an extensive operation and generated revenues from a number of advertising companies. They did not act alone but the duo were the ones that were identified by, among other things, their IP addresses.

The 26-year-old, who was arrested in Germany, was allegedly the money man who dealt with the advertisers. In addition to copyright infringement offenses, he stands accused of money laundering.

According to IDG, he will plead not guilty. His lawyer gave no hints why but suggested the reasons will become evident during the trial.

The younger man, who previously self-identified as Ola Johansson, is accused of being the day-to-day operator of the site, which included uploading movies to other sites where Swefilmer linked. He is said to have received a modest sum for his work, around $3,800.

“I think what’s interesting for the Swedish court is that this case has such clear elements of organized crime compared to what we have seen before,” Anna Ginner concludes.

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

This week we have four newcomers in our chart.

The Girl on The Train 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	(4)	The Girl on The Train	6.6 / trailer
2	(2)	The Accountant	7.6 / trailer
3	(…)	Patriots Day (DVDscr)	7.6 / trailer
4	(1)	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Subbed HDRip)	6.3 / trailer
5	(…)	Arrival (DVDscr)	8.3 / trailer
6	(6)	Doctor Strange (HDTS)	8.0 / trailer
7	(…)	La La Land (DVDscr)	8.8 / trailer
8	(…)	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	7.1 / trailer
9	(3)	Keeping Up with the Joneses	5.8 / trailer
10	(8)	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (HDTS)	8.3 / trailer

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

Missverständnisse ausräumen durch reden: Das klappt nicht nur bei Menschen, sondern auch beim Auto, zumindest, wenn es autonom fährt. BMW fordert, dass Standards entwickelt werden, damit der Austausch auch über mehrere Marken hinweg klappt. (Autonomes Fahren, Intel)

Blackberry will die Quadratur des Kreises schaffen: ein sicheres Android-Smartphone. Leider stellt der Hersteller wenig Informationen bereit und verwirrt Nutzer teils unnötig. (Blackberry, Linux-Kernel)

Nissan will ab Februrar 2017 Tests für selbststeuernde Autos in London beginnen. Dazu werden speziell umgerüstete Nissan Leaf verwendet. Die Elektroautos erhalten ein von Nissan selbst entwickeltes Autopilotsystem, das teilautomatisiertes Fahren erlauben soll. (Autonomes Fahren, GreenIT)

Volvo meint es ernst mit dem Carsharing und will mit Sunfleet ein globales Netzwerk aufbauen, dessen Mitglieder in vielen Ländern Autos online kurzfristig buchen und nutzen können. Andere Autohersteller sind schon weiter. Der Volvo-Chef will damit auf das veränderte Nutzungsverhalten reagieren. (Carsharing, Technologie)