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I’m still waiting for the Intel Kaby Lake-powered Zotac ZBOX mini-desktops introduced at CES to hit the streets. But Zotac has just unveiled a new model worth keeping an eye out for. The Zotac ZBOX CI327 nano is a small, fanless desktop with an Intel Celeron N3450 Apollo Lake quad-core processor. Zotac will offer several […]
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I’m still waiting for the Intel Kaby Lake-powered Zotac ZBOX mini-desktops introduced at CES to hit the streets. But Zotac has just unveiled a new model worth keeping an eye out for. The Zotac ZBOX CI327 nano is a small, fanless desktop with an Intel Celeron N3450 Apollo Lake quad-core processor. Zotac will offer several […]
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Computer in der Schule können den Schülern beim Lernen helfen. Sie spionieren die Schüler aber auch aus, wie die US-Bürgerrechtsorganisation EFF herausgefunden hat. (Privatsphäre, Datenschutz)
Computer in der Schule können den Schülern beim Lernen helfen. Sie spionieren die Schüler aber auch aus, wie die US-Bürgerrechtsorganisation EFF herausgefunden hat. (Privatsphäre, Datenschutz) The RIAA has sued Grande Communications for failing to take action against its pirating subscribers. The music industry group says that the Texas-based ISP’s subscribers engaged in more than a million BitTorrent-based infringements yet took “no meaningful action to discourage this continuing theft.”
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Despite approaching the problem from a number of directions, major copyright holders have been unable to do much to stop millions of BitTorrent-based infringements taking place every day.
A new lawsuit filed by the RIAA against ISP Grande Communications aims to change all that.
Yesterday, UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Warner Bros, Sony Music, Arista Records, Atlantic Records and almost a dozen other music companies sued the Texas-based provider over the infringements of its subscribers.
“Defendants have been notified that their internet customers have engaged in more than one million infringements of copyrighted works over BitTorrent systems, including tens of thousands of blatant infringements by repeat infringers of Plaintiffs’copyrighted works,” the lawsuit reads.
“Despite their knowledge of repeat infringements, Defendants have permitted
repeat infringers to use the Grande service to continue to infringe Plaintiffs’ copyrights without consequence.”
Right from the outset it’s clear that this case has a lot in common with the litigation currently underway against Cox Communications. In that case, Cox was accused by publishing company BMG of not taking significant action against thousands of its customers who persistently shared content using BitTorrent.
Like BMG’s case against Cox, the RIAA’s suit against Grande aims to strip away the protection the ISP normally enjoys under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. By not taking “meaningful action” against repeat infringers, the RIAA says that Grande can be held liable for the copyright infringements of its customers.
“Neither Grande or its management company Patriot has taken any meaningful action to discourage this continuing theft, let alone suspend or terminate subscribers who repeatedly commit copyright infringement through its network, as required by law,” the RIAA writes.
“Upon information and belief, this is so even where Defendants have specific and actual knowledge of those subscribers’ blatant, repeat infringement. Defendants’ effective acquiescence in this wholesale violation of Plaintiffs’ rights, coupled with their failure to adopt and reasonably implement a policy to stop repeat infringers, excludes Defendants from the safe harbor protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (‘DMCA’).”
The RIAA says that since Grande failed to take action against infringers, especially those identified as repeat infringers, it protected a “significant revenue stream” it receives each month from pirating subscribers. As such it is not only liable for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, but inducement of copyright infringement too.
What’s also interesting about this case is the involvement of anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp. The anti-piracy settlement company is deeply involved in the Cox case having provided the infringement data for the litigation. The same is true of the case against Grande.
It appears that Rightscorp’s claimed expertise in identifying repeat infringers is now central to the case, having had contact with Grande in the past. It seems likely that historical data collected by the company is now proving useful in the RIAA’s case against Grande.
“Rightscorp has provided Grande with notice of specific infringers using Grande’s internet service to infringe various copyrighted works. Rightscorp also requested that Grande terminate the ‘subscribers and account holders’ who are repeat infringers of copyrighted works,” the RIAA writes.
“Despite its knowledge of specific repeat infringers of copyrighted works, Grande apparently refused to do so.”
The RIAA says that Grande received notices that 1,840 of its customers had engaged in infringement at least 100 times, with 456 customers generating 500 infringement notices between them. More than 200 subscribers generated 1000 notices each with some generating more than 2000.
In closing, the RIAA seeks statutory damages, which could go up to $150,000 per infringed work, actual damages, plus profits generated by Grande as a result of infringement. The music group also asks for preliminary and permanent injunctions preventing Grande from further infringement, plus a jury trial in due course.
Having backed away from the so-called “six strikes” scheme earlier this year, the RIAA was left without any effective means to tackle online infringement. It’s now clear that it intends to force Internet service providers to be its unpaid enforcers.
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Erfolg für Chinas Raumfahrtprogramm: Der Raumfrachter Tianzhou hat an der Raumstation Tiangong angedockt. Automatische Kopplungsmanöver gelten als schwierig. (Raumfahrt, Technologie)
Erfolg für Chinas Raumfahrtprogramm: Der Raumfrachter Tianzhou hat an der Raumstation Tiangong angedockt. Automatische Kopplungsmanöver gelten als schwierig. (Raumfahrt, Technologie) Elektroautos fehlt der Strom, neuen Top-Smartphones die Besonderheit und der Bundesregierung fehlen die Beispiele. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Javascript)
Elektroautos fehlt der Strom, neuen Top-Smartphones die Besonderheit und der Bundesregierung fehlen die Beispiele. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Javascript) Roman Seleznev bankrupted businesses, did $170 million in damage.
Images of Seleznev with stacks of cash were found on his laptop following his 2014 arrest in the Maldives. (credit: Department of Justice)
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years in prison today. He was convicted of causing more than $169 million in damage by hacking into point-of-sale computers.
Seleznev, aka "Track2," would hack into computers belonging to both small businesses and large financial institutions, according to prosecutors. He was arrested in the Maldives in 2014 with a laptop that had more than 1.7 million credit card numbers. After an August 2016 trial, Seleznev was convicted on 38 counts, including wire fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and aggravated identity theft.
The sentence is quite close to the 30 years that the government asked for. Prosecutors said Seleznev deserved the harsh sentence because he was "a pioneer" who helped grow the market for stolen credit card data and because he "became one of the most revered point-of-sale hackers in the criminal underworld."
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Gillian Anderson: “You ready for more of this @davidduchovny? 🔦 #TheXFiles”
You can feel Scully’s skepticism here. (credit: Ed Araquel/FOX)
Grab your flashlights: Mulder and Scully will be back for 10 more episodes of The X-Files during the 2017-2018 season. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will revive the iconic 1990s-era roles that they briefly resumed during a short 2016 run.
The pair traded fun tweets on Thursday.
You ready for more of this @davidduchovny?
#TheXFiles pic.twitter.com/im43BzlDks
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) April 21, 2017
Oh yes, Been ready since '93 https://t.co/jDQRCGtd4V
— David Duchovny (@davidduchovny) April 21, 2017
"Iconic characters, rich storytelling, bold creators—these are the hallmarks of great TV shows," Fox Broadcasting Company President David Madden said in a statement. “And they are some of the reasons why The X-Files has had such a profound impact on millions of fans worldwide.”
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Did script kiddies use DoublePulsar code released by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers?
(credit: Jeremy Brooks )
Security experts believe that tens of thousands of Windows computers may have been infected by a highly advanced National Security Agency backdoor. The NSA backdoor was included in last week's leak by the mysterious group known as Shadow Brokers.
DoublePulsar, as the NSA implant is code-named, was detected on more than 107,000 computers in one Internet scan. That scan was performed over the past few days by researchers from Binary Edge, a security firm headquartered in Switzerland. Separate mass scans, one done by Errata Security CEO Rob Graham and another by researchers from Below0day, detected roughly 41,000 and 30,000 infected machines, respectively. To remain stealthy, DoublePulsar doesn't write any files to the computers it infects. This design prevents it from persisting after an infected machine is rebooted. The lack of persistence may be one explanation for the widely differing results.
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9th Circuit: local law actually “complements and reinforces” federal law, policy.
Enlarge / Berkeley, California, as seen in June 2013. (credit: Daniel Parks)
On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the City of Berkeley, allowing the city to keep its law that requires radiation warning signs in all cellphone stores within the city limits.
The CTIA, the cellphone industry trade group, sued the city to stop the law from taking effect by asking a lower court to impose a preliminary injunction. The group argued that forcing retailers to display the warning (pictured below) constituted compelled speech, which violates the First Amendment. After the district court didn't impose the injunction, the CTIA appealed to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
The 9th Circuit concluded that Berkeley's disclosure "did no more than alert consumers" to FCC safety disclosures.
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Nokia has spread its patents around widely, and they keep popping up in lawsuits.
Enlarge / Headquarters of Finnish telecom equipment group Nokia. (credit: Getty Images / RONI REKOMAA / Stringer)
The largest publicly traded patent-assertion company, Acacia Research, has launched a new lawsuit (PDF) against Apple and all the major cell phone carriers.
Cellular Communications Equipment, LLC, a unit of Acacia, has sued Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. The company says that the five industry giants infringe four patents related to basic cell phone technologies. All four patents originated at Nokia, which has been sharing its patents in so-called "patent privateering" arrangements for some years now.
Like so many lawsuits, the CCE v. Apple et al. case is based in the patent hotspot of East Texas, which is still considered favorable ground for patent plaintiffs. Acacia is based in Southern California, but the complaint says CCE's principal place of business is an office in Plano, which is within the Eastern District of Texas.
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