Month: March 2018

Ein Testfeld im bayerischen Wendelstein ist für die Telefónica wichtig, um Millionen von Smartphones als TV-Empfänger zu nutzen. Der Netzbetreiber stellt seine 700-MHz-Frequenzen zur Verfügung. (Fernsehen, Technologie)

Der Prozessorhersteller AMD will Schwachstellen in Ryzen- und Epyc-CPUs beheben. Die Veröffentlichung der Bugs hatte in der Sicherheitsszene für Diskussionen gesorgt. (AMD, Prozessor)

Der umstrittene Messenger Telegram soll den russischen Behörden seine Verschlüsselung offenlegen. Experten warnen allerdings ohnehin vor der Nutzung der Software. (Telegram, Datenschutz)

Bei OLED als Lichtgeber gibt es Fortschritte. Die Aachener Firma Oledworks zeigt unter anderem ihre nächste, hellere und langlebige Generation und bei LG wird flexibel auf beiden Seiten Licht abgegeben. Aus der Nische kommt die Technik trotzdem nicht. Eine Analyse von Andreas Sebayang (Drohne, OLED)

Bekannte Linux-Tools und eine bekannte Containersoftware: Windows Server 2019 ist ein klarer Schritt in Richtung Support bewährter Open-Source-Servertechnik. Auch Project Honululu spielt eine große Rolle. (Server-Applikationen, Microsoft)

Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. Every day pirate sites are visited hundreds of millions of times.

Piracy tracking outfit MUSO has documented the piracy landscape with data from tens of thousands of the largest global piracy sites.

In its latest report, the company recorded more than 300 billion visits to pirate sites last year alone. This is an increase of 1.6 percent compared to 2016.

More than half of all these visits (53%) are going to streaming sites, making that the most popular piracy tool. Torrent sites and direct download portals still have a significant user base, but follow at a respectable distance.

Most of the pirate visits came from the United States, followed by India and Brazil. Despite the various pirate site blockades, the UK also secured a spot in the top ten, ranked at the bottom with nine billion visits.

The top ten list favors large countries and with this in mind, there is a large player missing. China, which is often portrayed as a country where piracy is rampant, ended up in 18th place with ‘only’ 4.6 billion visits.

Visits per country

#	Country	Billion visits
Data from Muso
1	United States	27.9
2	Russia	20.6
3	India	17.0
4	Brazil	12.7
5	Turkey	11.1
6	Japan	10.6
7	France	10.5
8	Indonesia	10.4
9	Germany	10.2
10	United kingdom	9.0

Muso tracks piracy trends across various media categories and has spotted some interesting trends. TV-shows remain the most popular among pirates with 106.9 billion visits last year, followed by music (73.9 billion) and film (53.2 billion).

Mobile piracy is on the rise as well. For the first time, more people were accessing pirated TV content via mobile devices (52%) where desktops used to be the favorite device. In the music category, this difference is even more pronounced, with 87% using mobile devices.

Last year desktops were still preferred among movie pirates, but MUSO expects this will change in 2018.

According to MUSO co-founder and CEO Andy Chatterley, these data show that piracy remains a sizable threat, something we also hinted at in the recent past.

“There is a belief that the rise in popularity of on-demand services – such as Netflix and Spotify – have solved piracy, but that theory simply doesn’t stack up. Our data suggest that piracy is more popular than ever,” Chatterley says.

While it’s hard to make historical comparisons without good data, it’s clear that piracy is still rampant. And with more people coming online year after year, the potential audience keeps growing.

Also, it is worth noting that the total piracy landscape is even larger than MUSO shows. In recent years many people have switched to pirate streaming boxes. These are not included in MUSO’s dataset, which relies on data provided by SimilarWeb, among other sources.

That said, the overall conclusion that the piracy audience is massive, and not to be ignored, remains the same.

“The piracy audience is huge and yet for the most part, it’s an opportunity that’s completely ignored,” Chatterley says.

“It’s important that the content industries embrace the trends emerging from this data, not only in strategic content protection, but also in understanding the profile of the piracy ‘consumer’ for better business insight and monetizing these audiences,“ MUSO’s CEO adds.

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Andrew Barron hat als Modder für das Actionspiel Operation Flashpoint angefangen, Simulationen für Soldaten entwickelt, und war dann selbst im Krieg. Er erklärt, was viele Actionspiele besser machen könnten. (GDC 2018, Call of Duty)

Das Startup Lytro, das sich der Lichtfeldfotografie verschrieben hat, soll angeblich von Google gekauft werden. Der Preis soll deutlich unter dem liegen, was die Investoren in das Unternehmen gesteckt haben. Womöglich geht es Google nur um die Patente des Unternehmens. (Lytro, Google)

Lineare Handlung in offener Umgebung - geht eigentlich nicht. In Uncharted - The Lost Legacy hat das Entwicklerstudio Naughty Dog es trotzdem versucht, und dabei laut Autor Josh Scherr tief in die Trickkiste gegriffen. (Uncharted, Games)

Google hat Play Instant gestartet. Damit können Spiele auf Android-Geräten ausprobiert werden, ohne sie erst zeitaufwendig komplett installieren zu müssen. Das Testen neuer Titel soll damit einfacher werden. (Google Play, Google)