Month: February 2018

Der bekannte US-Konzern Go Daddy hat sein Angebot auf Deutsch übersetzt. Gehostet wird im Rechenzentrum von Go Daddy in Amsterdam. (Go Daddy, Wordpress)

Teslas Kunden scheinen sich am Bau der Ladestationen beteiligen zu müssen, mit denen die Elektro-Lkw geladen werden. Tesla soll mit Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi Co und United Parcel Service vor Ort Ladestationen an ihren Standorten bauen. (Tesla, Technologie)

Fünf Jahre nach Justin Rattner wird Michael Mayberry zum Chief Technology Officer bei Intel. Den führenden Posten bei der Product Assurance and Security Group besetzt der Hersteller mit der bisherigen Personalchefin. Parallel dazu hat Intel seine Mini-PCs mit Atom-Chips gegen Meltdown und Spectre gepatcht. (Prozessor, Intel)

Kritiker hatten eine Abschaffung des Gesetzes gegen Hasskommentare gefordert. Daraus wird aber nichts. Die künftige Groko will es nur nachbessern. Von Dietmar Neuerer (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, Verbraucherschutz)

While other providers in the UK and Ireland aim to compete, those requiring the absolute fastest fibre optic broadband coupled with a comprehensive TV package will probably find themselves considering Virgin Media.

Despite sporting Richard Branson’s Virgin brand, the company has been owned by US-based Liberty Global since 2013. It previously earned the title of first quad-play media company in the United Kingdom, offering broadband, TV, fixed-line and mobile telecoms packages.

Today, however, the company has a small piracy-related embarrassment to address.

Like several of the large telecoms companies in the region, Virgin Media operates a number of bricks-and-mortar stores which are used to drum up sales for Internet, TV and phone packages while offering support to new and existing customers. They typically look like the one in the image below.

Virgin Media store (credit: Virgin)

The outside windows of Virgin stores are usually covered with advertising for the company’s products and regularly carry digital displays which present the latest deals. However, one such display spotted by a passer-by carried a little extra.

In a now-deleted post on Reddit, a user explained that when out and about he’d passed a Virgin Media store which sported a digital display advertising the company’s impressive “Full House” package. However, intruding at the top of the screen was a notification from one of the most impressive piracy apps available, Terrarium TV.

Busted: Terrarium TV notification top and center

For those out of the loop, Terrarium TV is one of the most feature-rich Android-based applications available today. For reasons that aren’t exactly clear, it hasn’t received the attention of ‘rivals’ such as Popcorn Time and Showbox but its abilities are extremely impressive.

As the image shows, the notification is letting the user know that two new movies – The Star and The Stray – have been added to Terrarium’s repertoire. In other words, they’ve just been listed in the Terrarium app for streaming directly to the user’s installation (in this case one of Virgin’s own displays) for free, without permission from copyright holders.

Of course, Virgin Media definitely won’t have authorized the installation of Terrarium TV on any of its units, so it’s most likely down to someone in the store with access to the display, perhaps a staff member but possibly a mischievous customer. Whoever it was should probably uninstall it now though, if they’re able to. Virgin will not be happy about this.

The person who took the photo didn’t respond to TorrentFreak’s request for comment on where it was taken but from the information available in the image, it seems likely that it’s in Ireland. Virgin Media ads elsewhere in the region are priced in pounds – not in euros – so a retail outlet in the country is the most likely location. The same 99 euro “Full House” deal is also advertised on Virgin’s .ie website.

Terrarium TV

While a display running a piracy application over the top of an advert trying to sell premium access to movies and TV shows is embarrassing enough, Virgin and other ISPs including Eircom, Sky Ireland, and Vodafone Ireland are currently subject to a court order which compels them to block several pirate sites in Ireland.

The sources used by Terrarium to supply illicit copies of movies are not part of that order but since ISPs in the region don’t contest blocking orders when rightsholders apply for them, it’s reasonable to presume they’re broadly in favor of blocking pirate sites.

Of course, that makes perfect sense if you’re a company trying to make money from selling premium access to content.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN discounts, offers and coupons

Australien ist ein gutes Geschäftsfeld für Tesla: Nach einem Netzspeicher soll das Unternehmen ein virtuelles Kraftwerk aufbauen. Es soll die größte Anlange dieser Art werden. (Tesla, Technologie)

Nur noch wenige Monate, dann startet der hoffnungsvolle Nachwuchspilot Han Solo in seinem ersten eigenen Star-Wars-Kinofilm. Der neue Teaser-Trailer zeigt viele Szenen - inklusive der kaum wiederzuerkennenden Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones) als mysteriöse Kira. (Star Wars, Disney)

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Thor Ragnarok 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	(2)	Thor Ragnarok	8.1 / trailer
2	(3)	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (HDTS)	7.3 / trailer
3	(2)	The Shape of Water (DVDScr)	8.0 / trailer
4	(…)	24 Hours to Live	5.7 / trailer
5	(5)	Blade Runner 2049	8.9 / trailer
6	(10)	Coco	8.9 / trailer
7	(…)	Braven	5.6 / trailer
8	(4)	Bright	6.5 / trailer
9	(9)	Justice League (Subbed HDRip)	7.1 / trailer
10	(…)	Suburbicon	5.5 / trailer

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN discounts, offers and coupons

Microsoft hat neue Hardwarelevel für die Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) von Windows 10 definiert. Je nach Hardwareausstattung werden unterschiedliche Preise fällig. Für 25 US-Dollar darf die Hardware etwa nicht mehr als 4 GByte RAM haben. Die SSD bleibt extrem knapp bemessen. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Rund um Windows 10 ändert sich einiges: Microsoft hat damit begonnen, Windows 10 S als einen speziellen Modus in Windows 10 zu integrieren. Das könnte bald zu mehr Geräten mit einer eingeschränkten Windows-Version führen. (Windows 10, Microsoft)