
Month: July 2017
Fritzbox 6590 Cable im Test: AVMs neuer Kabelrouter läuft weniger heiß
Routerfreiheit nützt nur, wenn es eine Wahl gibt: Kabelkunden bekommen sie mit der neuen Fritzbox 6590, die potentes WLAN und schnelles Internet nach EuroDOCSIS 3.0 bringen soll und weniger überhitzt. Ein Umstieg vom Vorgänger lohnt sich allerdings nicht unbedingt. Ein Test von Martin Loschwitz (Fritzbox, DSL)

Additive Fertigung: US-Marine druckt U-Boot
3D-Drucken ist schnell und günstig – zwei Faktoren, die das Militär schätzt. Die US-Marine hat gezeigt, dass sich auch kleine U-Boote mit modernen Fertigungsverfahren herstellen lassen. Ob das gedruckte U-Boot auch schwimmt, muss sich aber noch zeigen. (3D-Drucker, Technologie)

Ark Survival Evolved: Wildcard plant Updates gegen Cheater und schwere Bossgegner
Die Veröffentlichung von Ark Survival Evolved verschiebt sich um ein paar Wochen. Die Zeit bis dahin soll aber für weitere Updates genutzt werden: Das Entwicklerstudio Wildcard plant technische Verbesserungen – und endlich halbwegs faire Bosskämpfe. (Ark Survival Evolved, Games)

Russia Bans ‘Uncensored’ VPNs, Proxies and TOR
A new bill, just signed into law by President Putin, requires proxies, VPNs, TOR and other anonymizing services to prohibit access to blocked domains. If these services fail to comply, they will be blocked themselves. Search engines also face sanctions for linking to banned sites.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Russia has swiftly become a world leader when it comes to website blocking. Tens of thousands of websites are blocked in the country on copyright infringement and a wide range of other grounds.
However, as is often the case, not all citizens willingly subject themselves to these type of restrictions. On the contrary, many use proxies or anonymizing services such as VPNs and TOR to gain access.
In recent months, the Russian Government has worked on legislation to crack down on these circumvention tools as well, and local media report that President Vladimir Putin has now signed the proposed bill into law.
Under the new law, local telecoms watchdog Rozcomnadzor will keep a list of banned domains while identifying sites, services, and software that provide access to them. Rozcomnadzor will then try to contact the operators of the services, urging them to ban the blocked websites, or face the same fate.
The FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be tasked with monitoring offenses, which they will then refer to the telecoms watchdog.
In addition to targeting the circumvention sites, services, and their hosts, the bill targets search engines as well.
Search engines will be required to remove links to blocked resources from their results, as these would encourage people to access prohibited material. Search engines that fail to comply with the new requirements face a $12,400 penalty per breach.
Local search giant Yandex previously spoke out against the far-reaching requirements, describing them as unnecessary.
“We believe that the laying of responsibilities on search engines is superfluous,” a Yandex spokesperson said.
“Even if the reference to a [banned] resource does appear in search results, it does not mean that by clicking on it the user will get access, if it was already blocked by ISPs or in any other ways,” the company added.
The new legislation has not been without controversy. Earlier this month many Russians protested the plans, but this had little effect on the final vote. In the Duma, the bill was approved by 373 deputies. Only two voted against the plans, and another and two abstained.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Windows Photos: KI filtert Fotos nach Gesichtern, Farben und Motiven
Fotos in Onedrive sortieren: Die Windows-Photos-App soll bald eine KI erhalten, die Fotos analysieren und nach Suchkriterien sortieren kann. Auch thematisierte Alben werden dem Nutzer vorgeschlagen. Noch ist die Funktion nur für Windows Insider verfügbar – mit Redstone 3 für alle Windows-Nutzer. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Charter: Sprint plant feindliche Übernahme für 164 Milliarden Dollar
Sprint braucht verzweifelt einen Partner, aber es kommt keine Vereinbarung zustande. Nun soll ein Kauf von Charter Communications erzwungen werden. (T-Mobile, Kabelnetz)
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/31/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Mummy’. ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ completes the top three.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
This week we have two newcomers in our chart.
Spider-Man: Homecoming 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 | (5) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (HDTS) | 8.0 / trailer |
2 | (1) | The Mummy 2017 (Subbed HDRip) | 5.8 / trailer |
3 | (…) | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | 7.2 / trailer |
4 | (3) | Going In Style | 6.8 / trailer |
5 | (2) | Ghost In the Shell | 6.8 / trailer |
6 | (4) | The Boss Baby | 6.5 / trailer |
7 | (9) | S.W.A.T.: Under Siege | ?.? / trailer |
8 | (7) | Wonder Woman (Subbed HDrip) | 8.2 / trailer |
9 | (…) | Shot Caller | 7.5 / trailer |
10 | (9) | Alien Covenant (Subbed HDrip) | 6.7 / trailer |
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
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