Month: May 2018

Ein Subtext ist eine weitere, implizite Botschaft in einem expliziten Text. Das von New Yorker Wissenschaftlern entwickelte System Frontcode schafft einen anderen Subtext: Es versteckt eine Botschaft in einem Text, indem es Buchstaben modifiziert. (Verschlüsselung, Technologie)

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Vodafone setzt 5G-Beam-Technologie ein, eine spezielle Antennentechnologie, die die Nutzer gezielt mit hohen Datenübertragungsraten versorgen soll. Die erste Ausrüstung steht bereits und soll mit dem Gigacube arbeiten. (Vodafone, DSL)

Beschreibung und Bilder von Wild West Online erinnern an Red Dead Redemption 2 - die meisten Kunden sind vom tatsächlichen Spiel allerdings enttäuscht. Es gibt Hinweise, dass hinter dem Titel ein seit Jahren umstrittener Entwickler steckt. (The War Z, Steam)

Battletech schickt Spieler in toll inszenierte Strategieschlachten, eine königliche Fantasywelt und Abenteuer im Orient: Unsere Rundschau stellt diesmal besonders spannende Indiegames vor. Von Rainer Sigl (Indiegames Rundschau, Spieletest)

Die Vorzugsbehandlung von Google durch die VG Media beim Leistungsschutzrecht bleibt vorerst erlaubt. Das Verwaltungsgericht München hat den Prozess um das Verbot der Gratislizenz ausgesetzt. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Google)

Wegen eines Bugs kann ein manipuliertes NTFS-Image auf USB-Sticks zu einem Bluescreen führen. Betroffen sind Windows-Betriebssysteme und auch das aktuelle April 2018 Update. Das Problem: Microsoft wird den Fehler vorerst nicht beheben, da hierfür ein physischer Zugang zum Gerät erforderlich ist. (Microsoft, Cloud Computing)

Zum Start von Samsungs Galaxy S9 und Huaweis P20 Pro hatten beide Smartphones noch keine Augmented-Reality-Anwendungen. Das hat sich jetzt geändert: Dank neuer ARCore-Unterstützung beherrschen die Geräte jetzt AR-Anwendungen, die auf Googles Dienst zurückgreifen. (Augmented Reality, Smartphone)

Die Bundesnetzagentur wird der Industrie und Gemeinden lokale 5G-Frequenzen auf Antrag zuweisen. Die Versteigerung der Frequenzen bei 2 Gigahertz und 3,6 Gigahertz wurde angeordnet. (5G, Bundesnetzagentur)

In 2018, dealing with copyright infringement claims is a daily issue for many content platforms. The law in many regions demands swift attention and in order to appease copyright holders, most platforms are happy to oblige.

While it’s not unusual for ‘pirate’ content and services to suddenly disappear in response to a DMCA or similar notice, the same is rarely true for entire legitimate services.

But that’s what appeared to happen on the Roku platform during the night, when YouTube, Netflix and other channels disappeared only to be replaced with an ominous anti-piracy warning.

The FBI and @RokuPlayer say that the YouTube channel on Roku is an ‘unauthorized service’ that has been pirating content. Weird. pic.twitter.com/wi31hv3Ydi

— Peter Tsai (@supertsai) May 16, 2018

As the embedded tweet shows, the message caused confusion among Roku users who were only using their devices to access legal content. Messages replacing Netflix and YouTube seemed to have caused the greatest number of complaints but many other services were affected.

FoxSportsGo, FandangoNow, and India-focused YuppTV and Hotstar were also blacked out. As were the yoga and transformational videos specialists over at Gaia, the horror buffs at ChillerFlix, and UK TV service BritBox.

But while users scratched their heads, with some misguidedly blaming Roku for not being diligent enough against piracy, Roku took to Twitter to reveal that rather than anti-piracy complaints against the channels in question, a technical hitch was to blame.

We are aware of a technical glitch that is affecting the Channel Store and channel playback on your Roku device. We hope to resolve the issue shortly. You can get a status update at https://t.co/mxCNxoG36N. We apologize for any inconvenience.

— Roku Support (@RokuSupport) May 16, 2018

However, a subsequent statement to CNET suggested that while blacking out Netflix and YouTube might have been accidental, Roku appears to have been taking anti-piracy action against another channel or channels at the time, with the measures inadvertently spilling over to innocent parties.

“We use that warning when we detect content that has violated copyright,” Roku said in a statement.

“Some channels in our Channel Store displayed that message and became inaccessible after Roku implemented a targeted anti-piracy measure on the platform.”

The precise nature of the action taken by Roku is unknown but it’s clear that copyright infringement is currently a hot topic for the platform.

Roku is currently fighting legal action in Mexico which ordered its products off the shelves following complaints that its platform is used by pirates. That led to an FBI warning being shown for what was believed to be the first time against the XTV and other channels last year.

This March, Roku took action against the popular USTVNow channel following what was described as a “third party” copyright infringement complaint. Just a couple of weeks later, Roku followed up by removing the controversial cCloud channel.

With Roku currently fighting to have sales reinstated in Mexico against a backdrop of claims that up to 40% of its users are pirates, it’s unlikely that Roku is suddenly going to go soft on piracy, so more channel outages can be expected in the future.

In the meantime, the scary FBI warnings of last evening are beginning to fade away (for legitimate channels at least) after the company issued advice on how to fix the problem.

“The recent outage which affected some channels has been resolved. Go to Settings > System > System update > Check now for a software update. Some channels may require you to log in again. Thank you for your patience,” the company wrote in an update.

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