Month: June 2018

Huawei is getting in on the gaming phone trend with the launch of its first smartphone featuring GPU Turbo technology. The Honor Play launches in China next week for about $310 and up, which makes it one of the most affordable phones designed for gaming to date. But it sports the same Kirin 970 processor […]

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Vier Jahre nach der Einführung der Metal-Schnittstelle mustert Apple OpenGL und OpenCL aus. Außerdem hat das Unternehmen die Verwendung von trainierten Modellen beschleunigt und erleichtert das Erstellen eigener Modelle. Hinzu kommen natürliche Sprachverarbeitung und ein Netzwerk-Framework. (Mac OS, Apple)

Es geht los, wenn das Wasser wärmer wird: Wissenschaftler aus der Schweiz haben ein U-Boot entwickelt, das von einem künstlichen Muskel angetrieben wird, der auf Temperaturveränderungen reagiert. Der Energy-Harvesting-Antrieb soll Wasserfahrzeuge ohne Motor ermöglichen. (Energy Harvesting, Technologie)

Intel may be struggling to start producing 10nm processors, but rival AMD is already getting ready to launch its first 7nm chips. During the company’s Computex press conference, AMD demonstrated an upcoming graphics processor based on Vega architecture and manufactured using a 7nm process. The company hardware partners are already testing samples, and the new […]

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Facebook will mehr Musik in sein soziales Netzwerk einbinden. Durch eine Zusammenarbeit mit der Musikindustrie können Nutzer in Zukunft ihre Videos mit Songs unterlegen. Bereits verteilt wird eine neue Playback-Funktion, die Nutzer in den Livevideos verwenden können. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)

Intel unveiled an upcoming 28-core CPU this week, promising it’d be available in the fourth quarter of 2018. So naturally AMD just announced a 32-core processor that could hit the streets months earlier. It’s due out in the third quarter of 2018. The 2nd-gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper is a high-end processor based on the company’s […]

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Es gibt viele Anbieter für 3D-Druck on Demand und die Preise fallen. Golem.de hat die 3D-Druckdienste von Toom, Conrad Electronic, Sculpteo und Media Markt getestet, um neue Figuren der Big-Jim-Reihe zu erschaffen. Ein Praxistest von Achim Sawall (BigJim, Mesh)

Vectoring durch ein Ende der Beschränkungen durch Förderrichtlinien und IP-Umstellung: Die Telekom legt die Schalter um, wechselt die Karten aus, und 832.000 Haushalte haben höhere Datenraten. (Vectoring, Telekom)

Rund 92 Millionen Nutzerdaten von einem Dienst zur Ahnenforschung sind unberechtigt kopiert worden. Die Passwörter liegen jedoch nur gehasht vor. Das Unternehmen verarbeitet auch DNA-Informationen. (Security, Server)

Online piracy is often portrayed as a simple problem. People download or stream something that’s not theirs because they don’t want to pay.

While this may apply in some cases, the reality is much more complex. In fact, over the years research has repeatedly shown that pirates are often the entertainment industry’s best customers.

Today, there are new findings to back this claim up. And to add some weight, they are released by the London-based anti-piracy company MUSO, which works closely with various copyright holders.

The company conducted a survey among 1,000 UK adults, through CitizenMe, to shed more light on how and why pirates consume content the way they do. The findings are noteworthy, to say the least.

Of all the people surveyed the vast majority, 60 percent, admitted that they illegally streamed or downloaded music, film or TV-shows in the past. This could have been yesterday or even two years ago.

Interestingly, the same pirates often try legal sources first. In fact, 83 percent say they usually try to find what they are looking for through official channels before trying anything else. This suggests that most pirates are also legal consumers.

“The entertainment industry tends to envisage piracy audiences as a criminal element, and writes them off as money lost – but they are wrong to do so,” says Paul Briley, CCO of MUSO, commenting on the findings.

“The reality is that the majority of people who have gone through the effort of finding and accessing such unlicensed content are, first and foremost, fans – fans who are more often than not trying to get content legally if they can.”

The problem appears to be that these pirates often can’t find what they’re looking for through their preferred legal channels. The top reasons for people to ‘pirate’ are that content is not available (34.9%), that it’s siloed or difficult to access (34.7%), or that they can’t afford it (35.2%).

MUSO notes that copyright holders should not dismiss the pirate audience as these people are actually engaged and valuable consumers. Instead, the entertainment industries should look for better ways to serve this crowd.

In recent years Hollywood has already made a lot of effort to make content available online. And while Netflix and other streaming services have made a positive impact, they’re not a silver bullet.

MUSO’s survey reveals that 91% of all pirates already have a streaming subscription, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify or Apple Music. That’s more than their non-pirating counterparts, of which less than 80% subscribe to one of these services.

The problem is that people sometimes need over a dozen separate subscriptions to access all the content they want. There’s no single service that offers everything in one place. This is one of the main reasons why piracy is still very relevant.

“There is a prevailing myth that streaming services have killed piracy, but unfortunately this just isn’t the case,” Briley notes.

“While streaming services have made huge amounts of content more readily available, it’s still siloed. The results of this survey demonstrate that if the show consumers are looking for isn’t available on their particular on-demand service, they will turn to unlicensed alternatives because it is too expensive to subscribe to every single service.”

MUSO’s previous research has shown that streaming piracy remains on the rise and this trend could continue going forward, for video at least.

It’s also worth mentioning that most pirates know very well that they are not supposed to do so. More than half, 53 percent, said that they think it is wrong to pirate, which is a higher percentage than those who never downloaded or streamed illegally.

While people’s reasons to pirate are clear, the solution is not as straightforward. Simply offering all content under one roof might solve the piracy problem, but it doesn’t automatically mean that more revenue will come in.

The film industry, in particular, relies heavily on complex rights deals, windowed releases, and exclusivity agreements. And with Disney launching its own streaming service, this may only get worse.

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