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US Congress Considers Expanding Copyright to 144 Years

Copyright terms may be expanded to 144 years thanks to a new law being debated in the US Congress. If passed, this would be the 12th time that copyright terms have been extended.

The CLASSICS Act, currently being debated in the Senate and House, aims to extend the copyright terms of sound recordings made between to 1923 and 1972 so that they do not fall into public domain until the year 2067.

Major record labels have been pushing for the term to be extended so their owned works, including those by Glenn Miller, Ray Charles and Elvis Presley, can continue to earn royalties from licensing deals.

The CLASSICS Act would also ensure these works cannot be streamed without a license, which would benefit the major streaming platforms such as Spotify that have existing licensing agreements in place, in their attempt to fight off new and minor players aiming to build their library around public domain recordings.

Critics of the proposed changes say the term extension could see "orphan works", that is lesser known recordings whose owners are not readily located, be forever lost. With these recordings still in copyright, and with the owners nowhere to be found, it would mean efforts to archive these recordings could meet copyright hurdles. The same critics argue that as opposed to a blanket granting of copyright extensions to all works, it should be up to the rights holders to actively apply for extensions (or else, copyright for works, by default, expire)

Others also argue that this goes against the principles behind copyright in the first place. They argue that copyright is as much about protecting the rights of creators to earn revenue from their works, as it is to protect cultural heritage by ensuring works are not lost or kept out of the public domain. The latter would be at risk if copyright terms are continuously extended, they say.

[via The Register]

Social Media Sites Are Full of Pirate Champions League Streamers

Ahead of tonight’s Champions League final, anti-piracy firm Irdeto has released fresh data on the prevalence of unauthorized streaming on social media platforms and elsewhere. During the knock-out stage alone it found more than 5,000 streams, which were seen by millions of people. According to Irdeto, more needs to be done to stop these streams.

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This evening, Liverpool and Real Madrid will go head to head in the Champions League final, one of the biggest sports events of the year.

Hundreds of millions of football fans from around the world will be glued to their televisions to follow the spectacle, while the hashtags #RMALIV and #UCLfinal are trending on social media.

While Twitter, Facebook and other social media are great ways to keep fans engaged and generate traction, they also present a threat. According to data released by the global anti-piracy outfit Irdeto, social media rivals traditional pirate streaming sites.

The company analyzed the number of pirated streams it ran into during the knockout stages of the Champions League and found 5,100 unique illegal streams that were rebroadcasting the matches.

Roughly 40 percent of these unauthorized broadcasts came from ‘social’ platforms including Periscope, Facebook and Twitch. Irdeto found 2,093 streams on these sites with an estimated 4,893,902 viewers.

Regular web-based streams on traditional sports pirate sites were the most popular (2,121), followed by ones found through Kodi-addons (886).

“These viewing figures combined with the number of UEFA Champions League streams detected across a variety of channels suggests that more needs to be done to stop the illegal distribution of high profile live European football matches,” the company writes.

Red card…

Rory O’Connor, Irdeto’s Senior Vice President of Cybersecurity Services, notes that criminals are “earning a fortune” from these activities. At the same time, he stresses that people who stream the matches on social media could face criminal action.

“The criminals who profit from these illegal streams have little regard for their viewers and are exposing them to cybercrime, inappropriate content and malware infection. Also, viewers of illegal content can face criminal penalties if they decide to share content with friends on social media,” O’Connor says.

Besides sharing infographics and reporting interesting statistics, including that Real Madrid was the most viewed team with 2,856,011 viewers of illegal social media streams during the knock out stage, Irdeto can also take action.

Whether they already work for UEFA or if this is an unsolicited application is not known to us, but they do work for other rightsholders.

So instead of tuning into the final tonight, they will probably be busy tracking down pirate broadcasts on social media and elsewhere, hoping to shut them down as soon as possible.

The game is on.

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Wochenrückblick: EUDSGVOMITDSESOPTOMVVT

Nahezu unbemerkt tritt eine Verordnung in Kraft. Im Universum von Han Solo und Star Wars spielt sie aber keine Rolle. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Verbraucherschutz)

Russian unit, GRU officer linked to 2014 shoot-down of airliner over Ukraine

Open source intelligence, physical evidence show Russia provided missile system.

Officials from the Netherlands and Australia today formally stated that they are convinced Russia was responsible for the deployment of the "Buk" anti-aircraft missile system that shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (ML17) in 2014. The announcement came a day after a Dutch-led joint investigation team released a report on their findings, which concluded the missile had belonged to the Russian Army's 53rd anti-aircraft brigade, which was based outside the city of Kursk, north of the Ukrainian border.

Physical evidence collected by investigators, along with radar track and flight recorder data, pointed to the use of a specific warhead type associated with Buk surface-to-air missiles. Paint transferred from fragments of the missile to the aircraft's fuselage was matched with recovered parts of the missile.

Russia has long denied that any of its military equipment ever crossed the border into eastern Ukraine, and the Russians presented several alternative scenarios—including blaming the downing of the airliner on a Ukrainian Air Force pilot. The Russians at first claimed to have radar evidence proving their allegation, but the country then said it was lost—only to claim they had found the evidence again just two days before the Joint Investigative Team's 2016 press conference. The separate target that Russia claimed to have identified on radar was actually part of ML14's fuselage breaking away after the missile detonated.

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Intel’s hardware-based Spectre mitigations won’t protect against variant 4 (or later)

A few months ago Intel promised that it would start shipping processors with hardware-based protections against the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in the second half of 2018. That will include upcoming 8th-gen Intel Core processors and Intel Xeon chips based on the new “Cascade Lake” architecture. But while those chips will offer hardware-based protections against […]

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OpenSUSE Leap 15 released (Linux with enterprise features)

The latest version of OpenSUSE is out today, bringing a new installer, improvements for cloud usage, and support for the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. OpenSUSE Leap 15 is also more closely aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), making it easy …

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FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices

Feds take aim at potent VPNFilter malware allegedly unleashed by Russia.

The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot them as soon as possible to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of thousands devices.

Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team first disclosed the existence of the malware on Wednesday. The detailed report said the malware infected more than 500,000 devices made by Linksys, Mikrotik, Netgear, QNAP, and TP-Link. Known as VPNFilter, the malware allowed attackers to collect communications, launch attacks on others, and permanently destroy the devices with a single command. The report said the malware was developed by hackers working for an advanced nation, possibly Russia, and advised users of affected router models to perform a factory reset, or at a minimum to reboot.

Later in the day, The Daily Beast reported that VPNFilter was indeed developed by a Russian hacking group, one known by a variety of names, including Sofacy, Fancy Bear, APT 28, and Pawn Storm. The Daily Beast also said the FBI had seized an Internet domain VPNFilter used as a backup means to deliver later stages of the malware to devices that were already infected with the initial stage 1. The seizure meant that the primary and secondary means to deliver stages 2 and 3 had been dismantled, leaving only a third fallback, which relied on attackers sending special packets to each infected device.

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Lenovo Miix 630 hits the FCC ahead of launch

Lenovo’s first Windows 10 computer with an ARM-based processor could hit the streets any day now. First unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the Lenovo Miix 630 is a 12.3 inch tablet with a detachable keyboard that lets you use t…

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This capsule of glowing E. coli will probe your gut for signs of trouble

Engineers married genetic and electrical circuitry for this gulp-able sensor.

Whether you go in from above or below, probing the inner workings of our innards is a tricky task. Our intestines are an extensive, inaccessible tangle of tubes, full of dark tucks and turns. But with a new ingestible capsule, researchers hope to shed light on the depths of our perplexing plumbing—quite literally.

The capsule contains living bacteria engineered to sense specific molecular signs of gut troubles and, when those molecules are present, the bacteria glow. The illuminating biological sensors are paired with low-power microelectronics within the pill. This includes photodetectors, a microprocessor, and wireless transmitter. In all, this ingestible micro-bio-electronic device, or IMBED, is designed to painlessly drift through our ductwork, probe for trouble, and relay findings wirelessly in real time as it takes its excursion through our entrails.

“Basically, our vision is that we want to try to illuminate and provide understanding into areas that are not easily accessible,” Timothy Lu, a biological and electrical engineer at MIT, said in a press briefing. Lu and electrical engineer Anantha Chandrakasan (also at MIT) led a team of researchers developing the IMBED.

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Deals of the Day (5-25-2018)

Amazon’s selling its Echo smart speakers for $10 to $15 off today… but the prices might need to drop even lower than that to make up for the bad press the company has received from an apparent fluke that caused one Echo owner’s device…

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