Month: September 2017

Großtasten-Handys richten sich vor allem an Menschen, die sich nur wenig mit Technik auseinandersetzen wollen oder können. Die spezialisierten Anbieter gehen jedoch überraschend wenig auf die Bedürfnisse ihrer Zielgruppe ein, wie der Test von Geräten der Hersteller Doro und Emporia zeigt. Ein Test von Ingo Pakalski (Handy, Test)

PixelNN kann unscharfe oder unvollständige Bilder rekonstruieren. Der Algorithmus sei dabei präziser als ähnliche Projekte. Die Entwickler nutzen ein neuronales Netz, um bereits jetzt relativ genaue Ergebnisse zu liefern. (Neuronales Netzwerk, KI)

In Großkarolinenfeld im Landkreis Rosenheim können die Bewohner das Netz von O2 seit längerer Zeit nicht voll nutzen. Einzelne Netzelemente an einem Mobilfunkstandort sind ausgefallen. (Telefónica, Mobilfunk)

Das Model S wird teurer: Tesla stellt eine Version des Elektroautos Model S ein. Es ist ausgerechnet die bisher günstigste Ausführung mit zwei angetriebenen Rädern. (Tesla Model S, Technologie)

For a country with a soaring crime rate, where violent car-jackings and other violent crime are reportedly commonplace, Internet piracy isn’t something that’s been high on the agenda in Peru.

Nevertheless, under pressure from rightsholders, local authorities have now taken decisive action against the country’s most popular ‘pirate’ sites.

On the orders of prosecutor Miguel Ángel Puicón, a specialized police unit carried out searches earlier this month looking for the people behind Pelis24 (Movies24) and Series24, sites that are extremely popular across all of South America, not just Peru.

Local media reports that an initial search took place in the Los Olivos district of the Lima Province where two people were arrested in connection with the sites. On the same day, a second search was executed in the town of Rimac where a third person was detained.

The case was launched following a rightsholder complaint to the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Customs Crimes and Intellectual Property in Lima. It stated that three domains – pelis24.com, pelis24.tv and series24.tv were offering unlicensed movies and TV shows to the public.

“In view of the abundant evidence, the office requested measures indicative of the right to the criminal judge. A search was carried out in search of the property and the preliminary 48-hour detention of the people investigated was requested,” authorities said in a statement.

The warrant not only covered seizure of physical items but also the domain names associated with the platforms. As shown in the image below, they now display the following seizure banner (translated from Spanish).

Pelis24/Series24 Seizure Banner

Authorities say that a detailed preliminary investigation took place in order to corroborate the information provided by the complainant. Once the measures were approved by a judge, the Prosecutor’s Office acted in coordination with the Investigations Division of the High Technology Crimes unit to carry out the operation.

According to Puicón, this is the first action against the operators of a pirate site in Peru.

“The purpose was to have the detainees close the sites voluntarily after providing us with the login codes,” he said. “We do not have a technology department, so the specialized high-tech police and complainants were present to preserve evidence.”

Local sources indicate that sentences for piracy can be as long as six years in serious cases. However, Peru has been exclusively tackling counterfeiting of physical discs, with online piracy being allowed to run rampant.

“The Office of the Prosecutor has the competency to deal with crimes against intellectual property but has been working exclusively in cases of physical piracy,” Puicón says.

“Online piracy has another connotation, we must use other procedures, another form of investigation and another strategy. Therefore, the authorities that are aware of these crimes must be trained on technological issues.”

It’s believed that at least a million Peruvians download infringing content from the Internet each week, a problem that will need to be tackled moving forward, when the authorities can gather the expertise to do so.

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

Kein großer Hack, aber einzelne Probleme: Selten stand die IT-Infrastruktur der Wahl so im Fokus wie dieses Mal. Neben Störungen bei der Übermittlung gab es auch zwischenzeitlich falsche Darstellungen der Ergebnisse. (BTW 2017, CCC)

Konkurrent Epic Games könnte sich technische Vorteile für Fortnite Battle Royale verschaffen - und so eine Bedrohung für Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (Pubg) werden, befürchtet dessen Entwicklerstudio Bluehole. (Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Steam)

Noch im vierten Quartal sollen die 300 Mitarbeiter von Gigya zu SAP wechseln. Das Unternehmen entwickelt eine Business-to-Consumer-Plattform. In der Vergangenheit wurde die damals unsichere Software von Hackern ausgenutzt. (SAP, Spam)

This week we have two newcomers in our chart.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 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)	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	6.9 / trailer
2	(3)	Baby Driver	8.0 / trailer
3	(9)	Despicable Me 3	6.4 / trailer
4	(2)	Transformers: The Last Knight	5.2 / trailer
5	(4)	Wonder Woman	8.2 / trailer
6	(5)	Hitman’s Bodyguard	7.2 / trailer
7	(6)	The Mummy 2017	5.8 / trailer
8	(…)	Revolt	5.4 / trailer
9	(7)	It	8.0 / trailer
10	(…)	Killing Gunther	?.? / trailer

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

Das wollte Intel nicht auf sich sitzen lassen: AMDs Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ist bisher die schnellste Desktop-CPU. Der neue Core i9-7980XE mit 18 Kernen ändert das Machtgefüge wieder, wenn auch zu einem hohen Preis für Käufer - und für Intel. Ein Test von Marc Sauter und Sebastian Grüner (Core i9, Prozessor)