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It’s starting to look like semiconductor companies are intent on eating each other up until only one is left standing. The latest development? The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel is considering making a bid to acquire Broadcom. Broadcom is the c…
It’s starting to look like semiconductor companies are intent on eating each other up until only one is left standing. The latest development? The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel is considering making a bid to acquire Broadcom. Broadcom is the company that’s been trying to initiate a hostile takeover of Qualcomm. And Qualcomm is […]
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Bridges would be easier, but it doesn’t want to disturb the surroundings.
Nowhere to be seen: Stockholm’s E4 bypass will tunnel under the straits of its archipelago. (credit: Karlheinz Woschee)
Stockholm is a city known for its waterways. Founded on an archipelago of some thirty thousand islands, bodies of water are rarely more than a stone's throw away in the Swedish capital. An appreciation for lakes, rivers, and nature in the fullest sense runs high in Swedish sentiment. It's not by chance, after all, that Stockholm is world-leading in air quality, access to green spaces, and sustainable urban planning.
That green mentality recently challenged engineers tasked with the design and construction of a new six lane bypass running 21km (more than 13 miles) north to south along the rapidly expanding city's western edge. How can you tackle a task that big whilst keeping the environmental impact to an absolute minimum?
"Typically, in an area with as low a building density as we have here, you'd take an overground route and construct bridges where necessary," Johan Brantmark, E4 project manager for the Swedish Transport Administration tells Ars. "That would be cheaper, and far easier of course. But we're motivated by other priorities, not the least of which is to preserve the surrounding environment. For that, tunnelling is the best approach."
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Tesla-Gründer Elon Musk rückt von Plänen für sein Tunnelsystem ab. In dem Hyperloop sollen nun doch keine Autos befördert werden. Doch das Konzept wirft weiter viele Fragen auf. (The Boring Company, Technologie)
Tesla-Gründer Elon Musk rückt von Plänen für sein Tunnelsystem ab. In dem Hyperloop sollen nun doch keine Autos befördert werden. Doch das Konzept wirft weiter viele Fragen auf. (The Boring Company, Technologie) AI creativity now extends to music composition tools that anyone can access.
Not only did I film this bit of dog fan fiction, I composed the soundtrack, thanks to technology. (Click here for transcript) (video link)
It used to be you could spend an afternoon drumming up a home movie with your little sister, soundtrack it with your favorite mixtape cuts, and upload it to the Internet for sharing without a care. But as bot-driven copyright tools started scanning new uploads and society generally became more concerned with proper song licensing, using whatever track you desired for some publicly available Web video became less of an option.
What's an amateur-at-best musician to do? I may have marched on a collegiate snare line (and therefore understand rhythm, phrasings, and tempo), but my ability to create melody probably stopped with middle school recorder lessons.
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Die EU will künftig europäische Fluggastdaten auf Vorrat speichern. Das im Aufbau befindliche deutsche System scheint noch nicht ganz sicher zu sein. (Malware, Sicherheitslücke)
Die EU will künftig europäische Fluggastdaten auf Vorrat speichern. Das im Aufbau befindliche deutsche System scheint noch nicht ganz sicher zu sein. (Malware, Sicherheitslücke) Die designierte Staatsministerin für Digitales dürfte bald vor ihrer ersten Bewährungsprobe stehen. Da Dorothee Bär das Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger ablehnt, droht eine Lobbyschlacht mit den Verlagen. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Urheberrecht)
Die designierte Staatsministerin für Digitales dürfte bald vor ihrer ersten Bewährungsprobe stehen. Da Dorothee Bär das Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger ablehnt, droht eine Lobbyschlacht mit den Verlagen. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Urheberrecht) It’s unthinkable that Netflix would ever do a deal with The Pirate Bay, but in Spain, something very similar happened a few years ago. Newly uncovered information reveals that the local streaming platform Flimin signed an agreement with one of the country’s most notorious pirate sites, in return for a significant stake in the company.
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In 2011 Hollywood’s MPAA highlighted SeriesYonkis as one of the most prolific pirate sites on the Internet.
“With a worldwide Alexa rank of 855, Seriesyonkis.com is one the most visited websites in the world for locating and streaming unauthorized copies of motion picture and television content,” Hollywood’s industry group informed the US Government.
While the MPAA was calling for tough enforcement actions, film industry partners in Spain came up with a different plan. They signed an unprecedented deal with the pirate site in 2011, hoping to convert its users into paying customers.
The main figures in this unusual episode are Juan Carlos Tous, the founder of the legal streaming platform Filmin, and SeriesYonkis owner Alexis Hoepfner, who operated the pirate site under his company Burn Media.
With help from lawyer Andy Ramos they negotiated a unique deal that would ‘merge’ both businesses. According to local newspaper El Confidencial, which has seen a copy of the agreement, SeriesYonkis company would get a 23% stake in Filmin, on the condition that pirate links were replaced with legal ones within a set period.
The entire agreement was kept secret by a confidentiality clause, which worked well until a few days ago.
SeriesYonkis also made two loans of 250,000 euros available, which were convertible into shares. In addition to the above, Filmin also offered compensation for every pirate it converted, up to 10 euros per user that signed up for an annual subscription.
The agreement further stipulated that SeriesYonkis had to apologize for its pirate ways. Point five stressed that SeriesYonkis and other Burn Media sites had to “carry out communication and awareness actions so that the users of the websites understand the need to legally access audiovisual content.”
Interestingly, SeriesYonkis wasn’t planning to go down and let other pirate sites take its traffic. The agreement included a clause that obligated Filmin to spend 25,000 euros to shut down or reduce traffic to other pirate sites.
The episode took place when Spain was about to implement its Sinde law, which would make it hard for local pirate sites in a country that was considered a “safe haven” at the time. However, not everything went according to plan.
The Sinde law didn’t destroy all Spanish pirate sites and six months after signing the agreement, SeriesYonkis stopped deleting pirate links. Even worse, its owner launched several new pirate sites, such as SeriesCoco and SeriesKiwi.
Filmin’s founder was outraged and sent an email demanding answers.
“I would like to hear your opinion on the progress and explanation of your plan with SeriesCoco! I do not understand anything! I thought you were going to decrease, and I see that you are opening portals!! WTF!” Tous wrote.
The deal eventually fell apart. Filmin kept its shares and stopped paying for new referrals. SeriesYonkis’ company Burn Media filed a lawsuit to get back its money, but thus far that hasn’t happened.
According to an insider close to the deal, the idea was brilliant. SeriesYonkis reportedly earned millions of euros at the time, more than Filmin, and used this money to go legal and destroy the competition ahead of a tough new anti-piracy law.
“The pirate not only abandons its weapons, but is integrated into the industry, and uses capital earned from piracy to fight against it,” a source told El Confidencial.
“It was a winning deal for everyone,” another source added, regretting that it didn’t work out. “It was a very bold agreement, something unusual in this sector, that would have changed the scenario if it had worked.”
Today, roughly seven years after the agreement was set into motion, Filmin is one of the larger streaming platforms in Spain. SeriesYonkis is also still around, but was sold by Hoefner in 2016 and no longer links to pirated content.
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Neben E-Autos gab es auf dem Genfer Autosalon auch ungewöhnliche Vehikel zu sehen. Eines davon könnte für die neue Staatsministerin Bär als Dienstwagen in Frage kommen. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet)
Neben E-Autos gab es auf dem Genfer Autosalon auch ungewöhnliche Vehikel zu sehen. Eines davon könnte für die neue Staatsministerin Bär als Dienstwagen in Frage kommen. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet) Industry and government alike seems to have found a new major target in the never-ending war on downloads, as panel discussions on Capitol Hill and even President Trump signals the opening of a new front in the war.A panel discussion happened this week…
Industry and government alike seems to have found a new major target in the never-ending war on downloads, as panel discussions on Capitol Hill and even President Trump signals the opening of a new front in the war.
A panel discussion happened this week on Capitol Hill, creatively titled 'Unboxing the Piracy Threat of Streaming Media Boxes'. Organised by Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the discussions focused mostly on the threat of streaming media boxes, sometimes collectively known as 'Kodi boxes'.
Streaming media boxes are quickly becoming the most popular way to obtain pirated content, as users are turned off by the inconvenience of downloading, as well as the unwanted legal attention that torrenting might bring. It's a "evolution" that the MPAA, Hollywood's main copyright lobby, is keenly aware of.
In attendance was Neil Fried, Senior Vice President, Federal Advocacy and Regulatory Affairs at the MPAA.
"There's a criminal enterprise going on here that's stealing content and making a profit," Fried spoke during the panel discussions, making clear the seriousness of the problem at hand.
While lawsuits against Kodi box makers have already occurred and many more are happening all around the world, Fried also hinted that the government was about to get in on the action as well. Fried said that a "variety of candidates" are already being lined up by the Department of Justice for future criminal action.
From the panel discussion, it was also clear that the target of any governmental action may not be just domestic in nature.
"To combat piracy abroad, USTR [United States Trade Representative] needs to work with the creative industries to improve enforcement and target the source of pirated material," said Kevin Madigan from the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
As if almost right on mark, President Trump also chimed in on the issue. Posting on Twitter as expected, Trump promised tough actions on pirates both domestic and foreign.
"The U.S. is acting swiftly on Intellectual Property theft. We cannot allow this to happen as it has for many years!" tweeted the President.
[via TorrentFreak]
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