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Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Plans to Target ‘Frequent’ Seeders

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN stresses that its plan to go after frequent seeders of pirated material is still on. The outfit will use its own tracking software to detect persistent infringers and hold them accountable. Movie distribution Dutch FilmWorks is working on a similar scheme, which is also yet to launch.

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For many years, the Netherlands has been a relatively safe haven for online pirates.

Downloading movies without permission was not punishable by law, as long as it was for personal use. This changed in 2014 when the European Court of Justice spoke out against the tolerant stance.

In response, the Dutch Government quickly outlawed unauthorized downloading. However, breaking the habits of a large section of the population remains a challenge to date.

While local anti-piracy group BREIN has been very active in its enforcement actions, these only affect a small group of people. To expand its reach, the group previously obtained permission from the Dutch Data Protection Authority to track and store the personal data of alleged BitTorrent pirates.

By using in-house software that automatically gathers IP-addresses of seeders, hundreds if not thousands of copyright infringers can be easily pinpointed.

Two years have passed since BREIN first announced this strategy, but thus far it has resulted in little action. According to BREIN director Tim Kuik, the plans were delayed until the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect.

However, the plans to go after pirates are still on. The group plans to target both initial uploaders as well as frequent seeders.

“The approach of the first and large uploader works well, but there is a larger group of users of file-sharing platforms that serve as a source,” Kuik tells Tweakers.

“Because they make frequent use of it and remain active as a seeder, we believe that they play an essential role in maintaining the system.”

Kuik does not want to reveal details on how the system operates. As a result, it is not clear, for example, when exactly a BitTorrent user is considered to be a ‘frequent seeder.’

“I don’t want move ahead of things, but the system will take random samples within a certain period of time. When you rise to the top, you fall within the enforcement model,” Kuik notes.

The above suggests that BREIN is mostly interested in structural seeders who upload content for a longer period of time. That said, Dutch torrent users have more to fear than BREIN alone.

Movie distributor Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) also received permission from the Data Protection Authority to monitor and track BitTorrent pirates. They are, perhaps, less likely to be reserved.

When we reached out to the movie distributor a few weeks ago, the company indicated that it would release more news on its plans soon. Thus far, however, no start date has been announced. The same is true for BREIN.

While tracking IP-addresses of BitTorrent users is easy, contacting them might still prove to be a challenge. The rightsholders will require cooperation from the ISPs, or a court order to receive the personal details of the alleged infringers, to make their plan work.

And even then, they have to cross their fingers and hope that BitTorrent pirates don’t run to streaming services.

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Libre Computer’s Renegade Elite single-board PC hits Indiegogo for $99

As promised, Libre Computer’s latest single-board computer is up for pre-order through a crowdfunding campaign. You can reserve a Renegade Elite for a pledge of $99 at Indiegogo and if everything goes according to plan, the tiny computer board wi…

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Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal shows how Copper Age people ate on the run

Archaeologists analyzed the mummified man’s last meal down to the DNA level.

In his final days, the Iceman ate a hearty mountaineer’s diet of red deer, wild goat, and whole grain einkorn wheat—but he may also have accidentally eaten toxic ferns.

Even after being chewed up, swallowed, partially digested in Ötzi’s stomach, and then frozen in a glacier for 5,300 years, some bits of Ötzi’s last meal are still recognizable, at least under a microscope. Frank Maixner of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies and his colleagues saw compact bits of fatty tissue and bundles of muscle fibers, mixed with pollen from a genus of wheat called einkorn, which grows wild in the region but also includes some of the earliest domesticated wheat species. Mixed in with the partly-digested food bits, however, were spores from a fern called bracken, which is toxic to humans and other animals if not properly prepared.

Red meat and healthy whole grains

Chemically, the remnants of Ötzi’s partially digested meal contained a compound called phytanic acid, which is a hallmark of fat or dairy products from ruminants like cattle, deer, and goats. There were also minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium, sodium, and zinc, all of which are found in red meat and dairy products. And among the 167 different animal and plant proteins in the samples, Maixner and his colleagues found six that are specific to structures in the long contracting threads in ibex skeletal muscles—leg of wild goat, perhaps. Another protein in the mix is found only in deer muscles.

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Staatstrojaner: Spionagefirmen drohen Bundesregierung mit Lieferstopp

Die Hersteller von Spähsoftware befürchten offenbar einen Imageschaden durch ihre Produkte. Daher will die Bundesregierung nicht einmal dem Bundestag die Namen der Staatstrojaner-Hersteller nennen. (Onlinedurchsuchung, Datenschutz)

Staatstrojaner: Spionagefirmen drohen Bundesregierung mit Lieferstopp

Expertin: Funklöcher waren bei LTE-Auktion eingeplant

Die Grünen-Expertin Margit Stumpp sieht die weichen Auflagen der LTE-Auktion im Jahr 2010 als Grund für die vielen Funklöcher in Deutschland. Dass dies den ländlichen Raum treffe, sei schon damals klar gewesen. (5G, Bundesnetzagentur)

Vectoring: Telekom baut 528 Nahbereiche aus

In den vergangenen drei Monaten hat die Telekom wie versprochen Vectoring im Nahbereich ausgebaut. Vorrang hatten zunächst die ländlichen Räume, die großen Städte folgen später. (Vectoring, DSL)

Rocket Report: Virgin goes Italian, SpaceX’s giant net, a nuclear launcher

The guy who designed the Raptor engine has even bigger plans for what’s next.

Welcome to Edition 1.08 of the Rocket Report! This week there is no shortage of news about SpaceX, as well as the race to become the first nation (or company) to build the first super-booster since the Saturn V rocket. Also, a company plans to launch 300km north of the Arctic Circle.

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below. Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Virgin Galactic signs deal to launch from Italy. Virgin Galactic and a pair of Italian companies have signed a framework agreement aimed at bringing Virgin Galactic's suborbital space tourism launcher to a future spaceport in Italy. The spaceplane would be based at Taranto-Grottaglie Airport, which Italian public-private partners aim to turn into a spaceport. The spaceport could become active as early as 2020, GeekWire reports.

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FPGA: Intels Serversparte kauft eASIC

Zuwachs für die Programmable Solutions Group: Intel hat eASIC übernommen, um die eigenen FPGA-Lösungen für Server besser integrieren zu können. Beide Hersteller kooperieren seit Jahren, da reine CPUs mittlerweile oft mit Beschleunigern gekoppelt werden…

Smartphones: LG verklagt Wiko in Deutschland wegen Patentverletzung

LG hat am Landgericht Mannheim Klage gegen den Smartphonehersteller Wiko eingereicht. Wiko wird vorgeworfen, drei LTE-Patente in den eigenen Geräten ohne Erlaubnis zu verwenden. Wiko wehrt sich gegen die von LG erhobenen Vorwürfe. (Patent, Smartphone)