Oath wird das gemeinsame Unternehmen von AOL und Yahoo heißen, das Verizon gehört. Ob der Name Yahoo bestehen bleibt, ist offen. Der Abschied von Marissa Mayer ist dagegen gewiss. (Yahoo, Verizon) Month: April 2017
NSO Group: Pegasus-Staatstrojaner für Android entdeckt
Nach der iOS-Version des Staatstrojaners Pegasus haben Sicherheitsforscher auch eine Version für Android gefunden. Diese nutzt keine Zero-Day-Exploits und kann auch ohne vollständige Infektion Daten übertragen. (Streaming Now Accounts for Majority of Music Industry’s Income, up 11% in 2016
For the first time ever, streaming now accounts for the majority of the music industry’s income, at least in the United States. The tremendous growth seen by music streaming has also helped the music industry post the biggest yearly growth since 1998.I…
For the first time ever, streaming now accounts for the majority of the music industry's income, at least in the United States. The tremendous growth seen by music streaming has also helped the music industry post the biggest yearly growth since 1998.
Including but not limited to Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music and YouTube, streaming accounted for 51% of music revenue in the U.S., bringing the total to US$7.7 billion for 2016. This is a 11 percent jump from the previous year, the biggest growth since 1998, at the height of music CD sales.
Music industry revenue is still down compared to that time though, with the current numbers only half of what it used to be. This is largely attributed to the changing buying habits of music fans, going from buying albums to much less expensive individual tracks.
Music subscription services, such as Spotify, accounted for most of the revenue growth. Almost 23 million users in the U.S. now subscribe to some kind of music streaming service, accounting for a third of all music sales.
But even with this set of stellar results, many in the music industry are still unhappy with the revenue sharing deal with Spotify, and in particularly the current situation with YouTube.
The music industry's copyright lobby, the RIAA, says the payout for streams on YouTube is only a fraction of what they would get from the likes of Apple Music or Spotify. The RIAA says that lax copyright laws are to blame, and has accused YouTube and parent company Google of profiting from piracy.
Current copyright laws protect Internet sites like YouTube from being liable for user uploaded content as long as the site has an active and workable way for rights-holder to identify and remove copyrighted works. The RIAA says this is not enough, as it places the onus on rights-holders to find and remove pirated content.
The RIAA argues that due to the widespread availability of pirated works on YouTube reduces the negotiating power of record labels when it comes to licensing deals.
YouTube argues that only rights-holders are capable of identifying which works belongs to them, and that YouTube has already gone beyond what's required to implement Content ID, an industry leading automated piracy scanning engine that can either remove pirated content, or pay rights-holders for any ad revenue earned from the pirated uploads. YouTube says they have already paid rights-holders more than $1 billion in fees in 2016 alone.
[via The Age, Medium]
Streaming Now Accounts for Majority of Music Industry’s Income, up 11% in 2016
For the first time ever, streaming now accounts for the majority of the music industry’s income, at least in the United States. The tremendous growth seen by music streaming has also helped the music industry post the biggest yearly growth since 1998.I…
For the first time ever, streaming now accounts for the majority of the music industry's income, at least in the United States. The tremendous growth seen by music streaming has also helped the music industry post the biggest yearly growth since 1998.
Including but not limited to Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music and YouTube, streaming accounted for 51% of music revenue in the U.S., bringing the total to US$7.7 billion for 2016. This is a 11 percent jump from the previous year, the biggest growth since 1998, at the height of music CD sales.
Music industry revenue is still down compared to that time though, with the current numbers only half of what it used to be. This is largely attributed to the changing buying habits of music fans, going from buying albums to much less expensive individual tracks.
Music subscription services, such as Spotify, accounted for most of the revenue growth. Almost 23 million users in the U.S. now subscribe to some kind of music streaming service, accounting for a third of all music sales.
But even with this set of stellar results, many in the music industry are still unhappy with the revenue sharing deal with Spotify, and in particularly the current situation with YouTube.
The music industry's copyright lobby, the RIAA, says the payout for streams on YouTube is only a fraction of what they would get from the likes of Apple Music or Spotify. The RIAA says that lax copyright laws are to blame, and has accused YouTube and parent company Google of profiting from piracy.
Current copyright laws protect Internet sites like YouTube from being liable for user uploaded content as long as the site has an active and workable way for rights-holder to identify and remove copyrighted works. The RIAA says this is not enough, as it places the onus on rights-holders to find and remove pirated content.
The RIAA argues that due to the widespread availability of pirated works on YouTube reduces the negotiating power of record labels when it comes to licensing deals.
YouTube argues that only rights-holders are capable of identifying which works belongs to them, and that YouTube has already gone beyond what's required to implement Content ID, an industry leading automated piracy scanning engine that can either remove pirated content, or pay rights-holders for any ad revenue earned from the pirated uploads. YouTube says they have already paid rights-holders more than $1 billion in fees in 2016 alone.
[via The Age, Medium]
Telekom zu Vectoring: “Alt-Technik” der Konkurrenz ist “längst abgeschrieben”
Die Deutsche Telekom findet es unverständlich, dass sie trotz ihres Beitrags zum Breitbandausbau nun auch noch deutlich mehr Kompensationen an Wettbewerber zahlen muss. Diese würden "teilweise nicht investieren" und deren "Alt-Technik" sei "längst abgeschrieben." (Quantencomputer: Quantennetz mit Rauschunterdrückung
Quantenkommunikation ist abhörsicher, aber störanfällig. Wissenschaftler aus Österreich haben ein neues Protokoll entwickelt, das die Übertragung von Quantenbits verbessern soll. Von Dirk Eidemüller (Quantencomputer, Verschlüsselung)
Quantenkommunikation ist abhörsicher, aber störanfällig. Wissenschaftler aus Österreich haben ein neues Protokoll entwickelt, das die Übertragung von Quantenbits verbessern soll. Von Dirk Eidemüller (Quantencomputer, Verschlüsselung) Pax: Google will Patentstreitigkeiten verhindern
Patentrechtsstreitigkeiten bringen vor allem Probleme. Damit es nicht dazu kommt, hat Google ein Abkommen mit vielen wichtigen, großen Herstellern geschlossen. Innerhalb des Android-Ökosystems sollen damit Patentstreitigkeiten verhindert werden. (Google, Smartphone)
Patentrechtsstreitigkeiten bringen vor allem Probleme. Damit es nicht dazu kommt, hat Google ein Abkommen mit vielen wichtigen, großen Herstellern geschlossen. Innerhalb des Android-Ökosystems sollen damit Patentstreitigkeiten verhindert werden. (Google, Smartphone) Rabattaktion vorbei: Apple hebt Preise für USB-C-Zubehör wieder an
Apple hat die für einige Monate rabattierten Preise für USB-Typ-C-Zubehör und -Peripherie wieder erhöht. Zur Einführung der neuen MacBook Pro mit Touch Bar waren sie nach heftiger Kritik teilweise deutlich reduziert worden. (Daimler: Brennstoffzellen-Auto verliert an Priorität
Daimler-Chef Dieter Zetsche will das Wasserstoff-Brennstoffzellen-Auto nicht mehr als wichtige Zukunftstechnik behandeln. Sinkende Akkukosten machen das Elektroauto attraktiver. (Brennstoffzellenauto, Technologie)
Daimler-Chef Dieter Zetsche will das Wasserstoff-Brennstoffzellen-Auto nicht mehr als wichtige Zukunftstechnik behandeln. Sinkende Akkukosten machen das Elektroauto attraktiver. (Brennstoffzellenauto, Technologie) Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?
Nations battled, voids came and went, and one million pixels said a lot about humanity.
Enlarge / The final, community-built image stamped onto reddit.com/r/place before the 72-hour experiment was shut down on Monday morning. (credit: Reddit)
Data stored and shared on the Internet is almost universally cumulative. If the history of Internet information were a word-processor document, it would include an endless stream of new sentences, along with lots of "strikethrough" phrases (like this one) that reflects edits and updates without ever deleting the originals.
Reddit hosted an online experiment over April Fool's weekend that was ultimately governed by the same rules. But on its face, "Place" was different. Archives and time-lapse videos will forever exist to show off how Place worked, but its special trick—that its contents, at any moment, would only contain a single here-and-now statement created by thousands of people—is not the kind of thing that an Internet archive or Google cache can easily recreate.
“Together, you can create something more”
On Friday, Reddit administrators uploaded a blank, 1,000x1,000 pixel canvas to the "reddit.com/r/place" subreddit. It included a message:
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