Month: February 2018

HP und Fujitsu stehen zu ihren Dockingports. Für die nächsten Jahre fahren beide Hersteller von Business-Notebooks eine Doppelstrategie - anders als Dell und Lenovo. Das hat Vor- und Nachteile. (Business-Notebooks)

In Kürze wird Chrome vielen alten Symantec-Zertifikaten nicht mehr trauen, eine Testversion zeigt schon jetzt Warnmeldungen. Doch viele Seiten haben noch nicht umgestellt - darunter auch prominente Seiten wie Wechat oder Spiegel Online. (Symantec)

Die Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) hat ihre Prüfstatistik für 2017 vorgelegt. Bei den Altersfreigaben für Computerspiele gab es keine Veränderungen gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Weiter stark gewachsen sind Freigaben für Online-Games und Apps. (USK)

DNS:Net bringt Haushalten in Brandenburg FTTH. Es werden 100 MBit/s und nach Wunsch auch höhere Datenraten geboten. (Glasfaser)

HP hat eine neue Generation von Elitebooks der 800er-Serie angekündigt. Die Generation 5 (G5) hat als große Neuerung den Core i der achten Generation mit bis zu vier Kernen. Dafür wurde allerdings das Notebook vergrößert. (Business-Notebooks)

Nach einer erfolgreichen Mission spricht Elon Musk über den Flug, die Entwicklung der Falcon Heavy und die weiteren Pläne von SpaceX. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer und Werner Pluta (SpaceX)

Wer seinem Prozesssor durch Overclocking zur höchstmöglichen Leistung verhelfen möchte, für den hat G.Skill bald den passenden Speicher: Die Trident Z laufen mit DDR4-4700, allerdings mit hoher Spannung und nur auf wenigen (Intel-)Mainboards. (DDR4)

Dank eines relativ glaubwürdiges Leaks wissen wir mehr über Red Dead Redemption 2: Spieler sollen wahlweise in der Ich-Perspektive antreten können, und für den Onlinemodus ist Battle Royale geplant. Auch auf den Inhalt des nächsten Call of Duty gibt es Hinweise. (Red Dead Redemption 2)

After being founded more than half a decade ago, Swefilmer grew to become Sweden’s most popular movie and TV show streaming site. It was only a question of time before authorities stepped in to bring the show to an end.

In 2015, a Swedish operator of the site in his early twenties was raided by local police. A second man, Turkish and in his late twenties, was later arrested in Germany.

The pair, who hadn’t met in person, appeared before the Varberg District Court in January 2017, accused of making more than $1.5m from their activities between November 2013 and June 2015.

The prosecutor described Swefilmer as “organized crime”, painting the then 26-year-old as the main brains behind the site and the 23-year-old as playing a much smaller role. The former was said to have led a luxury lifestyle after benefiting from $1.5m in advertising revenue.

The sentences eventually handed down matched the defendants’ alleged level of participation. While the younger man received probation and community service, the Turk was sentenced to serve three years in prison and ordered to forfeit $1.59m.

Very quickly it became clear there would be an appeal, with plaintiffs represented by anti-piracy outfit RightsAlliance complaining that their 10m krona ($1.25m) claim for damages over the unlawful distribution of local movie Johan Falk: Kodnamn: Lisa had been ruled out by the Court.

With the appeal hearing now just a couple of weeks away, Swedish outlet Breakit is reporting that media giant Bonnier Broadcasting has launched an action of its own against the now 27-year-old former operator of Swefilmer.

According to the publication, Bonnier’s pay-TV company C More, which distributes for Fox, MGM, Paramount, Universal, Sony and Warner, is set to demand around 24m krona ($3.01m) via anti-piracy outfit RightsAlliance.

“This is about organized crime and grossly criminal individuals who earned huge sums on our and others’ content. We want to take every opportunity to take advantage of our rights,” says Johan Gustafsson, Head of Corporate Communications at Bonnier Broadcasting.

C More reportedly filed its lawsuit at the Stockholm District Court on January 30, 2018. At its core are four local movies said to have been uploaded and made available via Swefilmer.

“C More would probably never even have granted a license to [the operator] to make or allow others to make the films available to the public in a similar way as [the operator] did, but if that had happened, the fee would not be less than 5,000,000 krona ($628,350) per film or a total of 20,000,000 krona ($2,513,400),” C More’s claim reads.

Speaking with Breakit, lawyer Ansgar Firsching said he couldn’t say much about C More’s claims against his client.

“I am very surprised that two weeks before the main hearing [C More] comes in with this requirement. If you open another front, we have two trials that are partly about the same thing,” he said.

Firsching said he couldn’t elaborate at this stage but expects his client to deny the claim for damages. C More sees things differently.

“Many people live under the illusion that sites like Swefilmer are driven by idealistic teens in their parents’ basements, which is completely wrong. This is about organized crime where our content is used to generate millions and millions in revenue,” the company notes.

The appeal in the main case is set to go ahead February 20th.

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Bisher hat Apple älteren Akkus die Schuld an der iPhone-Drosselung gegeben. Jetzt hat das Unternehmen erstmals eingeräumt, dass sich das Smartphone unerwartet abschaltet, weil das Power Management fehlerhaft ist. Möglicherweise sind neue Modelle weniger stark betroffen. (iPhone)