Month: February 2018

Die Fusion TB3 PCIe Flash Drive genannte SSD von Sonnet wird per Thunderbolt 3 angeschlossen und erreicht hohe Datenraten. Obendrein gibt es sie mit 1 TByte statt mit 512 GByte. Auch Dell arbeitet an einer ähnlichen TB3-SSD, die aber kleiner ist. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)

Qualcomms drahtlose Audiotechnik wird um weitere Funktionen verbessert: Künftig können mehrere Audiogeräte parallel angesteuert werden. Außerdem werden Stromverbrauch und die Signallatenz verbessert. Dazu braucht es aber zwei neue Qualcomm-Chips. (Qualcomm, Prozessor)

Read 26 remaining paragraphs | Comments

Die Geschäfte der Telekom laufen sehr gut. Auch durch die US-Steuerreform stieg der Gewinn massiv an. 40.000 Kilometer neue Glasfaser verlegte die Telekom meist zur Erschließung für Vectoring. (Telekom, DSL)

Bullitt verbündet sich mit dem Autohersteller Land Rover. Unter der Marke kommt ein Ruggedized-Smartphone auf den Markt. Das Explore kann mit Modulen erweitert werden und soll damit die Bedürnisse von Abenteuerurlaubern erfüllen. Ein Hands on von Ingo Pakalski (Smartphone, Android)

Disney has stumbled at the first hurdle in its bid to stop kiosk rental company Redbox from selling digital codes found in Disney Blu-ray combo packs.

Failing to come to a distribution agreement with Disney, Redbox had been buying Disney combo packs (featuring the Blu-ray, DVD and Digital copies of a film) at retail, and then separating the discs and digital codes for rental/sale. This, in particular the "resale" of the digital codes, has caught the ire of Disney and the studio sued Redbox in December of last year.

Disney had asked for a preliminary injunction to stop Redbox from engaging in what the studio called "contributory copyright infringement" and a "breach of contract", but today, a Californian federal judge denied Disney's request on the ground that Disney was overreaching when it comes to exercising their copyright control.

U.S. District Court Judge Dean Pregerson agreed with Redbox's argument that Disney was engaging in "copyright misuse". 

Disney's licensing terms for the digital copy states that the user must be in ownership of the Blu-ray/DVD disc when redeeming the digital code. This would mean that someone who buys the combo pack and sells the physical discs that comes with it, which is their legal right, they would no longer be able to redeem the digital copy. Judge Pregerson found this to be beyond the scope of Disney's copyright.

"This improper leveraging of Disney's copyright in the digital content to restrict secondary transfers of physical copies directly implicates and conflicts with public policy enshrined in the Copyright Act, and constitutes copyright misuse," wrote Pregerson in his decision.

In addition, Pregerson found that in the language of "Codes are not for sale or transfer" condition printed on Disney's combo pack packaging did not specifically suggest that opening the box would be an acceptance of the contract (which may lead to Disney changing the language of the condition in future disc packaging).

Redbox did find a few of its argument rebutted by Judge Pregerson. Redbox had argued that the digital copy should enjoy the protection of the First Sale Doctrine, which guarantees the resale rights of the original buyer. However, Judge Pregerson found that at the time of sale, no digital copy of the movie actually exists until the buyer redeems the code, and as a result, no "first sale" has actually occurred yet.

"Instead, Disney appears to have sold something akin to an option to create a physical copy at some point in the future. Because no particular, fixed copy of a copyrighted work yet existed at the time Redbox purchased, or sold, a digital download code, the first sale doctrine is inapplicable to this case," wrote Pregerson.

Redbox has filed a motion to the court to dismiss Disney's lawsuit. A hearing on this is scheduled for March 5.

Earlier this month, Redbox filed its own lawsuit against Disney, also citing copyright misuse.

[via The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter]

Mercedes-Benz eActros nennt Daimler seinen neuen Lkw, der rein elektrisch fahren soll. Das Fahrzeug wird laut Unternehmen 2018 in den Kundeneinsatz gehen. Die Reichweite von bis zu 200 km macht das Fahrzeug für den Verteilerverkehr sinnvoll einsetzbar. (Mercedes Benz, Technologie)

Kommende Snapdragon-Chips mit 5G-Unterstützung wird Qualcomm bei Samsung im 7-nm-Low-Power-Plus-Verfahren (7LPP) mit extrem ultravioletter Belichtung (EUV) herstellen lassen. Konkurrent TSMC scheint damit außen vor. (Snapdragon, TSMC)

Apple hat mit MacOS High Sierra das Dateisystem APFS eingeführt. Entsprechend formatierte Medien lassen sich mit älteren MacOS-Versionen nicht lesen. Paragon schafft mit einem Treiber Abhilfe. (APFS, Apple)

Renault will auf der portugiesischen Insel Porto Santo Elektrofahrzeuge etablieren, die das Stromnetz stützen können. So will der Autobauer zeigen, wie Elektromobilität in Zukunft mit erneuerbaren Energien verbunden werden könnte. (Elektroauto, Technologie)