Month: April 2017

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Tesla will an 53.000 Elektroautos die Handbremse austauschen lassen. Ein Sicherheitsproblem stellt das nicht dar - Tesla ruft die Fahrzeuge trotzdem aus Vorsicht zum Service. (Tesla, Elektroauto)

Geht es nach Qualcomm, erscheinen innerhalb der kommenden Monate erste Mobile-Geräte mit ARM-basierten Snapdragon-SoCs und vollwertigem Windows 10. Möglich macht das eine entsprechende x86-Emulation von Microsoft. (Snapdragon, UMPC)

Hübsche Anspielung auf die eigene Geschichte: In der nächsten Erweiterung für den Onlinemodus von GTA 5 können Spieler ihr Auto aus der Vogelperspektive über Highways jagen - so wie damals in den ersten beiden Grand Theft Auto. (GTA 5, Rennspiel)

For millions of people around the world, subtitles are absolutely essential for enjoying the most popular movies and TV shows. Many consumers don’t have English as their mother tongue and the deaf have few other options.

As a result, subtitles are extremely popular among Internet users. These files, which are tiny when compared to the videos they accompany, are downloaded in their millions every month. Some are ripped from official media, but others are the product of fans who painstakingly create their own subtitles from scratch.

For many years these ‘fansubbers’ have flown under the radar, but increasingly they’ve come under pressure from anti-piracy groups who accuse them of infringing copyright and fueling piracy. BREIN has been quite active on this front, forcing several subtitling groups into retreat, but last year faced a unique response from a tenacious group of fansubbers.

After raising their own funds, last year the “Free Subtitles Foundation” (Stichting Laat Ondertitels Vrij – SLOV) took the decision to make a stand for subtitling groups in the Netherlands, suing BREIN with the hope of obtaining a favorable legal ruling.

The group’s lawyer, Camiel Beijer, previously told TF that the case revolved around two issues.

“The main question is whether the creation and publishing of film subtitles is an act only reserved to the maker of the film work in question,” Beijer said

“The second issue concerns a review of the conduct of BREIN against people who create and reproduce subtitles. The Free Subtitles Foundation anticipates that a court verdict will shed more light on these two themes.”

This week the Amsterdam District Court handed down its decision (pdf) and it was bad news for the fansubbers. The Court rejected all of their claims and sided with BREIN on each count.

The Court found that subtitles can only be created and distributed after permission has been obtained from copyright holders. Doing so outside these parameters amounts to copyright infringement.

“There are several so-called release teams actively making films and TV series available from illegal sources and adding illegal subtitles for the Dutch market. This judgment makes it clear once again that this is illegal,” BREIN director Tim Kuik said in a statement.

BREIN maintains that whatever their intentions, the work carried out by fansubbers is not only damaging to copyright holders, but also amounts to unfair competition for emerging business models involving movies and TV shows. With that in mind, BREIN will continue its crackdown.

“With this decision in hand it will be easier for BREIN to maintain its work against illegal subtitlers and against sites and services that collect illegal subtitles and add movies and TV shows from an illegal source,” Kuik concludes.

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

Der Spielmodus von Windows 10 ist zweischneidig: Er kann zwar Aussetzer bei Hintergrundlast verringern, wirkt aber noch unausgereift. Denn der Game Mode klappt nicht überall und nach dem Beenden stottert das Betriebssystem vor sich hin. Ein Bericht von Marc Sauter (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Die Gopro Fusion ist eine hochauflösende 360-Grad-Videokamera - und möglicherweise das Produkt, mit dem der angeschlagene Hersteller die Kehrtwende schaffen kann. Doch das Gerät ist noch nicht fertig. (Gopro, Foto)

There's a new king of home consoles, at least for one month. The Nintendo Switch has outsold all others, including the super popular PS4 and the Xbox One, to become the best selling home console in March. These sales figures are from research group NPD, covering the all important North American markets.

An estimated 906,000 Switch consoles were sold in March in North America, half a million in the first week alone, with the hit game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wind, selling even more copies than there are consoles in the U.S!

NPD was also keen to point out the battle for second place was won by Sony's PS4, beating the Xbox One yet again.

Despite coming in third, Microsoft pointed out that the Xbox is being played more than ever, with 1.1 billion multiplayer gaming hours in March alone, up 14% from a year ago.

Microsoft will be relying on its upcoming Xbox One update, the Scorpio, to reverse its fortunes by supplying gamers with the most powerful console ever built when it is released later this year.

[via Game Revolution]

Die erste Version von Opels Elektroauto Ampera-E soll nach Abzug der Elektroautoprämie 34.950 Euro kosten. Ohne Prämie kostet das Auto ab 39.680 Euro. Wer Extras wünscht, zahlt wie bei fast allen Autos mehr. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Das eiförmige Elektroflugzeug Lilium hat seinen Erstflug heil überstanden. Auf einem Flugplatz in der Nähe von München hob der Senkrechtstarter zu einer Platzrunde ab. (Flugzeug, Technologie)