Bisher klappte es nur mit Intels Kaby-Lake-Prozessoren: Wer eine Pascal-basierte Karte unter Windows 10 samt Insider-Preview-Treiber nutzt, kann 4K-Netflix anschauen. Es gibt aber Einschränkungen bei Multimonitorsystemen. (Netflix, DRM) Month: May 2017
Aussie ISPs Ordered to Block KickassTorrents ‘Spinoffs’
Australia’s Federal Court has issued a new blocking order targeting several KickassTorrents related sites. When the original site was taken down, music industry companies shifted the focus to several spinoffs. Twenty Internet providers now have two weeks to implement reasonable measures to block users from accessing the infringing domains.
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Last spring, members of the Australian music industry teamed up to file their first ‘pirate’ site blocking request Down Under.
In an application at the Federal Court, member labels Universal Music, Warner Music, Sony Music and J Albert & Son demanded that then leading torrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) should be blocked by the country’s ISPs.
The labels argued that KickassTorrents showed a “complete disrespect for music creators and the value of music,” and wanted Internet users to be prohibited from accessing the site.
However, before the court could decide, KAT was already ‘taken care of‘ by the U.S. Department of Justice, which shut it down.
That didn’t end the blocking effort in Australia though. Instead of going after the main KickassTorrents site, which no longer exists, the labels changed their focus to the various spinoffs that appeared in its wake.
A few days ago the Federal Court issued its judgment, ordering 20 Australian Internet providers to block a variety of domain names.
The new targets, which shifted quite a bit as the case progressed, include Katcr.co, the KAT ‘reincarnation‘ that was launched by a group of former staffers of the original site.
In addition, the order also listed some domains that have absolutely nothing to do with the original KickassTorrents. Kickass.cd, for example, which is little more than a dressed up Pirate Bay mirror.
Justice Burley is nonetheless convinced that the domain names in question deserve to be blocked, relying on the argument that KAT’s primary motive was to infringe or facilitate copyright infringement.
“The large number of monthly visits to the KAT website indicate that the infringement facilitated by the KAT website can be described as flagrant and reflect an open disregard for copyright on the part of the operators of the KAT website,” SMH quotes Justice Burley.
The ISPs in question now have two weeks to implement reasonable measures to block these domains.
Whether this will stop people from infringing is unclear though. A similar Federal Court targeted at The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and streaming service SolarMovie was quickly defeated earlier this year.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 05/01/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Logan’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Fifty Shades Darker’. ‘Kong: Skull Island’ completes the top three.
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This week we have two newcomers in our chart.
Logan is the most downloaded movie for the third week in a row.
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) | Logan (Subbed HDRip) | 8.6 / trailer |
| 2 | (…) | Fifty Shades Darker | 4.7 / trailer |
| 3 | (3) | Kong: Skull Island (Subbed HDRip) | 7.0 / trailer |
| 4 | (5) | Split | 7.0 / trailer |
| 5 | (2) | The Fate of the Furious | 6.7 / trailer |
| 6 | (…) | Colossal | 7.4 / trailer |
| 7 | (4) | Get Out (Subbed HDRip) | 8.1 / trailer |
| 8 | (8) | The Boss Baby (HD-TS) | 6.5 / trailer |
| 9 | (7) | La La Land | 8.4 / trailer |
| 10 | (10) | Ghost in The Shell (HDTS) | 6.9 / trailer |
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Betriebssysteme: Linux 4.11 freigegeben
In Version 4.11 des Linux-Kernels sorgen Neuerungen an Dateisystemen für mehr Datensicherheit und eine effizientere Sortierung von Schreibzugriffen auf modernen Datenträgern. Notebooks mit NVMe-Speicher bekommen mehr Akkulaufzeit. (Linux-Kernel, Server-Applikationen)
In Version 4.11 des Linux-Kernels sorgen Neuerungen an Dateisystemen für mehr Datensicherheit und eine effizientere Sortierung von Schreibzugriffen auf modernen Datenträgern. Notebooks mit NVMe-Speicher bekommen mehr Akkulaufzeit. (Linux-Kernel, Server-Applikationen) Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless”
Leaked 2017 document reveals FB Australia’s intent to exploit teens’ words, images.
Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook's 2016 "F8" conference. (credit: Facebook)
Facebook's secretive advertising practices became a little more public on Monday thanks to a leak out of the company's Australian office. This 23-page document, discovered by The Australian (paywall), details in particular how Facebook executives promote advertising campaigns that exploit Facebook users' emotional states—and how these are aimed at users as young as 14 years old.
According to the report, the selling point of this 2017 document is that Facebook's algorithms can determine, and allow advertisers to pinpoint, "moments when young people need a confidence boost." If that phrase isn't clear enough, Facebook's document offers a litany of teen emotional states that the company claims it can estimate based on how teens use the service, including "worthless," "insecure," "defeated," "anxious," "silly," "useless," "stupid," "overwhelmed," "stressed," and "a failure."
The Australian says that the documents also reveal a particular interest in helping advertisers target moments in which young users are interested in "looking good and body confidence” or “working out and losing weight." Another section describes how image-recognition tools are used on both Facebook and Instagram (a wholly owned Facebook subsidiary) to reveal to advertisers "how people visually represent moments such as meal times." And it goes into great detail about how younger Facebook users express themselves: according to Facebook Australia, earlier in the week, teens post more about "anticipatory emotions" and "building confidence," while weekend teen posts contain more "reflective emotions" and "achievement broadcasting."
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