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Sony Sends Preemptive FIFA World Cup Copyright Warnings

Sony Entertainment Network operates a number of TV channels, such as Sony ESPN, that have the rights to broadcast the 2018 FIFA World Cup. TorrentFreak has learned that through an anti-piracy partner, Sony has started sending out preemptive warnings to illicit streaming sites. The letter advises against the unauthorized streaming of matches while threatening civil and criminal action.

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In years gone by, an event like the upcoming FIFA World Cup wouldn’t have been drastically affected by piracy.

Most people like to watch matches as they happen so systems like BitTorrent, that offer after-the-fact content, weren’t particularly useful.

These days, however, there are hundreds of unlicensed platforms fully capable of transmitting live content, meaning that the World Cup is within reach of anyone with a half decent Internet connection.

With this in mind, anti-piracy companies are likely to be working overtime during the World Cup in an effort to take down live streams as soon as matches get underway. Whether they will enjoy much success will remain to be seen but for the Sony Entertainment Network, the battle has already begun.

Through Indian anti-piracy outfit Markscan, Sony has this week been sending out preemptive warnings to pirate sites. A copy shared with TorrentFreak by a sports streaming platform reveals Sony claiming TV, radio, mobile and broadband broadcasting rights to the World Cup in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The company warns of serious consequences if sites don’t heed their warnings.

“[Our] Client will be showing the matches live and content related to FIFA 2018 in various languages across the following channels comprising of Sony Entertainment Network which are designated to the official broadcasters of FIFA 2018,” the letter from Markscan reads.

The company then lists 10 channels that will be broadcasting content, including Sony ESPN, a collaboration between the two companies in India.

“By way of the present caution notice issued to you, we caution you and your website, not to indulge in any broadcasting, rebroadcasting, making available for viewing and / or communicating to the public, the FIFA 2018 matches and any content associated thereof, without obtaining permission / authorization from our client,” it continues.

Markscan states that the site in question will be monitored for any acts of infringement and if any take place it shall be compelled to “initiate legal proceedings (civil and/or criminal) should you engage in violation of our Client’s rights despite the present notice.”

The person who received the notice from Markscan asked for his identity and his site to remain anonymous. However, he confirmed that he streams sports and the warning won’t make any difference.

“No, that’s not gonna stop us,” he told TF. “We will stream the whole FIFA World Cup in our platform.”

Due to the sheer number of legal services the World Cup will be made available on, stopping all unauthorized streams will prove absolutely impossible. Indeed, due to the huge number of unlicensed sites around today, it’s likely to be one of the most-pirated live sports tournaments of all time.

This means that despite best and preemptive efforts, any takedowns will prove a drop in the ocean.

Preemptive FIFA takedown

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E-Privacy-Verordnung: Regierung lehnt Kopplungsverbot bei Werbetrackern ab

Die Verhandlungen zur E-Privacy-Verordnung gehen in die Schlussphase. Die Bundesregierung hat deutlich gemacht, dass sie die Einbußen für die Werbewirtschaft möglichst gering halten will. (EU, Datenschutz)

Fernsehserie: HBO gibt Prequel zu Game of Thrones in Auftrag

Freunde von Game of Thrones können sich freuen: Der US-Fernsehsender HBO plant eine Fortsetzung der Fernsehserie, die zeitlich vor deren Handlung angesetzt ist. Romanautor George R. R. Martin ist am Drehbuch beteiligt. (Game of Thrones, Fernsehen)

Wochenrückblick: Apple in der Wüste, Facebook im Abseits, Golem.de in Taiwan

Apple zeigt neue Funktionen bei MacOS und iOS, Microsoft erkauft sich Entwicklersympathien, ein EuGH-Urteil zu Facebook-Fanpages verunsichert und auf der Computex erstrahlt neue Hardware. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrück…

Hereditary is catnip for fans of slow-burn horror movies

Everything ordinary is unsettling and wrong.

Every summer, stowed between the latest sequel to ComicBook Man Saves Everything and Johnny Depp Fights Special FX, Hollywood tries to sneak at least one interesting horror film into cineplexes. This week, we get Hereditary, a brilliant (and rare) mid-summer take on the slow-burn horror genre.

What, exactly, constitutes a slow-burn horror film? These employ the magic of cinema to turn everyday objects and activities into the most dread-inducing things you've ever seen. How? You can't put your finger on it, but there's a deep wrongness to what should be mundane. What viewers like me want is an ordinary house rendered unsettling through sound design and dissonant music. We want something banal like handwashing made threatening because of a camera angle. We want a casual stroll down a normal corridor to feel downright Satanic because of the lighting.

Hereditary's got allllllll that good stuff.

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Facebook let select companies have “special access” to user data, per report

Such data sharing was supposed to have been fully cut off in 2015, but it wasn’t.

Facebook maintained secret deals with a handful of companies, allowing them to gain "special access to user records," long after it cut off most developers' access to such user data back in 2015, according to a new Friday report by the Wall Street Journal, citing court documents it did not publish and other unnamed sources.

These arrangements, which were known as "whitelists," reportedly allowed "certain companies to access additional information about a user’s Facebook friends," including phone numbers.

Numerous companies, including the Royal Bank of Canada and Nissan Motor Company, apparently maintained such deals.

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In a blow to e-voting critics, Brazil suspends use of all paper ballots

Country’s top court equates e-voting critics with conspiracy theorists.

In a blow to electronic-voting critics, Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended the use of all paper ballots in this year's elections. The ruling means that only electronic ballot boxes will be used, and there will be no voter-verified paper trail that officials can use to check the accuracy of results.

In an 8-2 majority, justices on Wednesday sided with government arguments that the paper trails posed a risk to ballot secrecy, Brazil’s Folha De S.Paulo newspaper reported on Thursday. In so doing, the justices suspended a requirement that 5 percent of Brazil’s ballot boxes this year use paper. That requirement, by Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court, already represented a major weakening of an election reform bill passed in 2015.

Speaking in support of Wednesday’s decision, Justice Gilmar Mendes equated proponents of voter-verified paper trails to conspiracy theorists.

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RIAA: ISP’s Interest in Piracy Phishing Scam Is a ‘Fishing Expedition’

A controversial phishing campaign where scammers used fake piracy settlements to extort cash was brought to the forefront again recently. ISP Grande Communications wants to use it as evidence in their repeat infringer case against the RIAA, but the music group sees this effort as a pointless fishing expedition.

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Late last month, Internet provider Grande Communications requested assistance from U.S. Marshals to serve piracy tracking company IP-Echelon.

The unusual request is linked to the RIAA lawsuit, where Grande stands accused of failing to disconnect repeat infringers.

Specifically, the ISP wants to find out more about a DMCA notice scam where scammers tried to extract payments.

This phishing scam used fake piracy notifications, abusing IP-Echelon’s name. Since the RIAA lawsuit is partly based on evidence from IP-Echelon’s competitor Rightscorp, Grande believes that it has grounds to find out more about the scam.

After the ISP was unable to reach the piracy tracking company at its Hollywood office it requested help from the Marshals. However, this week the cavalry was called off, as IP-Echelon’s attorney came forward to accept service of the subpoena.

While assistance from US law enforcement is no longer needed, the legal paperwork makes clear that the RIAA is not happy with Grande’s efforts.

Earlier this week, before the call for Marshal assistance was retracted, the RIAA opposed the request. While the issue is moot now, it does reveal the music industry’s views on using the phishing scam as evidence in the lawsuit.

The RIAA told the court that the lawsuit against Grande is about copyright infringements of subscribers, who were put on notice by Rightscorp, not IP-Echelon.

“IP-Echelon appears to provide services similar to Rightscorp’s services. But IP-Echelon is not a party to this litigation. Plaintiffs have not retained IP-Echelon in connection with this litigation or in connection with Grande in any way,” the RIAA wrote.

“Instead, Grande seeks to serve its subpoena because IP-Echelon was apparently the victim of a ‘phishing’ scam in which certain ISPs, including Grande, received fake infringement notices related to copyrighted movies purporting to be from IP-Echelon.”

The RIAA doesn’t deny that Grande and others may have fallen prey to this scam. However, the music group doesn’t see how this is relevant in this case. Instead, they see the efforts to obtain additional evidence as a fishing expedition.

“Grande’s subpoena for evidence about this phishing scam is itself a fishing expedition,” the RIAA writes.

If Grande questions the authenticity of Rightcorp’s notices it can do so through discovery directed to Rightscorp, the RIAA stresses. The music group sees no justification for going after IP-Echelon.

Thus far Grande hasn’t provided any details about its intentions regarding the issue at hand. However, it is likely that they want to use the scam to argue that not all notices can be trusted.

The RIAA clearly doesn’t see the point in doing so and it informs the court that the ISP has already pursued a series of non-party subpoenas, claiming that Grande tries to shift the focus of the case away from its own conduct.

If IP-Echelon testifies, the RIAA expects that anything they’ll bring to the table will be inadmissible.

“The subpoena to IP-Echelon will not lead to the discovery of any admissible evidence; it will only cause the Court and the parties to waste time on pointless discovery that will not aid resolution of the issues in this case,” the RIAA concludes.

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A copy of RIAA’s opposition to Grande’s motion is available here (pdf). Grande’s notice to withdraw its motion can be found here (pdf).

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Intel “Pocket PC” prototype is a phone-sized Windows tablet with Kaby Lake-Y

Intel is showing off a number of concept devices, prototypes, and reference designs at Computex this week, including the Tiger Rapids dual-screen concept that’s paving the way for devices like the upcoming Lenovo Yoga Book 2 and Asus Project Prec…

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Intel isn’t going to be launching a 28-core 5GHz processor this year after all

The company forgot to mention that the 5GHz chip was overclocked.

Earlier this week, Intel showed off a product coming in the fourth quarter of this year: an enthusiast-oriented 28-core processor running all cores at 5GHz. This combination of clock speed and core count would put it head and shoulders above any other processor on the market, so the demonstration was more than a little surprising.

It now turns out that Intel forgot to mention an important detail: the 5GHz processors were overclocked, a lot, using chilled water coolers capable of handling thermal loads of up to 1.77kW. The real chips that ship won't be coming from the factory at 5GHz, and it's going to take a lot more than a big heatsink and a couple of fans to get them running that fast.

Aside from the core count and release window, Intel has confirmed one other fact about these 28-core chips: they're built on some variant of its 14nm process. They also use the enormous LGA3647 socket (that's 3,647 pins) used by some Xeon processors, and they have six memory channels. We don't know what platform/chipset this will use (though it's likely to be a close relative to the comparable server platform). And we don't know what its regular clock speed will be.

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