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Es geht los mit Super-Vectoring bei der Deutschen Telekom. Doch laut Deutschlandchef Dirk Wössner wollen die Kunden des Netzbetreibers gar keine sehr hohen Datenraten. (Telekom, DSL)
Amazon also calls government’s input a “very reasonable idea.”
In the wake of the ongoing kerfuffle between the American Civil Liberties Union and Amazon, the tech giant has now responded more fully to accusations that its facial recognition system, Rekognition, wrongly identified 28 members of Congress as arrestees in an ACLU test last week.
Matt Wood, Amazon’s general manager for deep learning and artificial intelligence wrote in a blog post last Friday that while the ACLU used the default setting of an 80 percent confidence level, the company recommends a far higher setting "for use cases where highly accurate face similarity matches are important."
"We continue to recommend that customers do not use less than 99 percent confidence levels for law enforcement matches, and then to only use the matches as one input across others that make sense for each agency," he wrote.
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Unlike most other countries in Europe, offering free wifi in Germany has been fraught with difficulty since local laws have failed to protect operators when users carry out infringements. Now, however, Germany’s top court has upheld 2017 legislation which grants WiFi operators immunity from acts carried out by their users.
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In many jurisdictions it’s common for those who commit wrongs online to be responsible for their own actions. In Germany, things haven’t been so straightforward.
Due to a legal concept known as ‘Störerhaftung’ (‘interferer liability’), a third party who played no deliberate part in someone else’s actions can be held responsible for them.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this legal quirk has made itself known in a number of file-sharing cases where customers have used someone else’s WiFi to commit infringements.
While this was convenient enough for copyright holders (there was always someone to blame), it meant that few people wanted to operate open WiFi. This stood in stark contrast to the situation in many other EU countries where open WiFi networks are both ubiquitous and good for trade.
In 2016, the German government promised to do something about the problem by
ensuring places like cafes and hotels would exempt from costs for court proceedings when people use their infrastructure for things such as infringement.
In 2017, regulation was put in place to help facilitate greater access to open WiFi but the environment remained chilled. Despite assurances operators wouldn’t be prosecuted under German law, many believed that EU law might still hold them liable.
Last week, however, an important step was taken when Germany’s supreme court upheld the 2017 amendments to the Telemedia Act. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) decided that the legislation is indeed compatible with EU regulations.
The case relates to an incident back in 2013 when a man challenged a company attempting to fine him for sharing a game online. DW reports that the IT worker had been running several open WiFi networks and Tor servers, one of which was used to download and share the game Dead Island.
In common with many copyright-troll style cases, game owner Deep Silver, a subsidiary of Koch Media, demanded that the man pay 1,000 euros to make a supposed lawsuit go away.
Acknowledging there should be a means for incidents of copyright infringement to be dealt with, the BGH found that WiFi providers can be told to prevent access to file-sharing services and even block entire websites, something which helps copyright holders prevent sharing of their works.
In 2016, in a case involving Pirate Party member Tobias McFadden, the European Court of Justice previously ruled that WiFi providers cannot be held liable for third-party infringements providing local courts or authorities can order WiFi providers to take measures to stop repeat incidents of infringement.
“[T]he directive does not preclude the copyright holder from seeking before a national authority or court to have such a service provider ordered to end, or prevent, any infringement of copyright committed by its customers,” the Court found.
The case ruled upon last week is now likely to head off to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a final decision.
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Im ersten Halbjahr 2018 gab es im stationären Handel klare Gewinner: Far Cry 5 und Fifa 18 waren in den meisten Ländern am erfolgreichsten. Das PS4-exklusive God of War hat es fast überall auf den zweiten Platz der Charts geschafft. (Far Cry 5, Playsta…
Im ersten Halbjahr 2018 gab es im stationären Handel klare Gewinner: Far Cry 5 und Fifa 18 waren in den meisten Ländern am erfolgreichsten. Das PS4-exklusive God of War hat es fast überall auf den zweiten Platz der Charts geschafft. (Far Cry 5, Playstation 4) The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Escape Plan 2: Hades’. ‘Sanju’ completes the top three.
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This week we have three newcomers in our chart.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the most downloaded movie.
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.
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| Movie Rank | Rank last week | Movie name | IMDb Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most downloaded movies via torrents | |||
| 1 | (8) | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (subbed HDRip) | 6.5 / trailer |
| 2 | (1) | Escape Plan 2: Hades | 3.9 / trailer | 3 | 10) | Sanju | 8.8 / trailer |
| 4 | (2) | Rampage | 6.3 / trailer |
| 5 | (3) | Tully | 7.2 / trailer |
| 6 | (…) | Extinction | 5.9 / trailer |
| 7 | (6) | Avengers: Infinity War (HDCam) | 9.1 / trailer |
| 8 | (4) | Ready Player One | 7.7 / trailer |
| 9 | (…) | Raazi | 7.9 / trailer |
| 10 | (…) | Deadpool 2 (Subbed Rip) | 8.0 / trailer |
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ARCore, ARKit und Hololens werden dauernd weiterentwickelt, doch bisher hat Augmented Reality den Durchbruch im Massenmarkt noch nicht geschafft. Was fehlt – und was kommt? Darüber haben wir mit dem Kölner Entwickler Peter Bickhofe gesprochen. Von Achi…
ARCore, ARKit und Hololens werden dauernd weiterentwickelt, doch bisher hat Augmented Reality den Durchbruch im Massenmarkt noch nicht geschafft. Was fehlt - und was kommt? Darüber haben wir mit dem Kölner Entwickler Peter Bickhofe gesprochen. Von Achim Fehrenbach (Augmented Reality, Entwicklungsumgebung) Mac-Nutzer, die noch Office 2011 einsetzen wollen, haben bei einer Neuinstallation ein Problem: Der Aktivierungsserver von Microsoft steht nicht mehr zur Verfügung. Somit lässt sich die Software beispielsweise bei einem Rechnerwechsel nicht mehr nutzen…
The GPD Pocket 2 is a handheld computer that looks like a laptop, but which is small enough to fold up and slide into your pocket. As the name suggests, it’s a follow-up to last year’s GPD Pocket, and the new model has a faster processor, a…
The GPD Pocket 2 is a handheld computer that looks like a laptop, but which is small enough to fold up and slide into your pocket. As the name suggests, it’s a follow-up to last year’s GPD Pocket, and the new model has a faster processor, an updated keyboard layout, and a sleeker design. It’s […]
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Customers in the market for a pocket-sized Windows PC with a QWERTY keyboard now officially have more choices than they’ve had since the UMPC craze came and went more than a decade ago. The GPD Pocket 2 is up for pre-order via an Indiegogo crowdf…
Customers in the market for a pocket-sized Windows PC with a QWERTY keyboard now officially have more choices than they’ve had since the UMPC craze came and went more than a decade ago. The GPD Pocket 2 is up for pre-order via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and it should ship later this year. Or you […]
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It’s hard to spot consistent trends in the mass influx of DMCA takedown notices Google receives. One thing is pretty clear though, the search engine consistently refuses to remove The Pirate Bay’s homepage from its index. This, despite dozens of attempts from a wide variety of copyright holders over the years.
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In recent years, Google has had to process an incredible number of takedown requests, aimed at ‘pirate’ sites in search results.
While most of these notices do indeed list links to copyright-infringing content, not all are.
There are the obvious errors, where Wikipedia, Justice.gov, or NASA are targeted, for example. But even sites with a clear pirate stigma have pages that are not directly infringing.
Take The Pirate Bay’s homepage, which contains the iconic pirate ship logo, a search box, as well as some other links. However, there is no direct mention of copyright-infringing content that warrants a ‘takedown.’
That doesn’t prevent copyright holders and various reporting agencies from trying to remove it from Google though. Data provided by the Lumen team, which maintains an archive of all the DMCA notices Google search receives, shows that Pirate Bay’s homepage has been targeted dozens of times.
This year alone, at least 15 separate takedown notices ask Google to remove ThePirateBay.org from its index. Most of these are sent by the reporting agency Digimarc, on behalf of book publishers such as Penguin Random House, Kensington Publishing, and Recorded Books.
The most recent was sent just a few days ago, accusing TPB’s homepage of hosting or linking to an infringing copy of “Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama.” A few days earlier a similar notice accused the same page of linking to the French version of Stephen King’s The Running Man.
These notices also list other totally unrelated links which are hard to explain, as the image below shows. However, we won’t dwell on that here.
Over the years, The Pirate Bay’s homepage has been targeted more than 70 times. And even then we’re only counting the official domain names, ThePirateBay.org and ThePirateBay.se.
The oldest public notice we could find was sent by the American sports promotion company Zuffa. In January 2013 the company identified several infringing Pirate Bay links, but also added in the site’s homepage.
While there’s no shortage of reports, TPB’s homepage is still in Google’s index.
Since TPB’s homepage is not infringing, Google categorically refuses to remove it from its search results. While the site itself has been downranked, due to the high number of takedown requests Google receives for it, ThePirateBay.org remains listed.
Google did remove The Pirate Bay’s homepage in the past, by accident, but that was swiftly corrected.
“Google received a (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down request that erroneously listed Thepiratebay.org, and as a result, this URL was accidentally removed from the Google search index,” Google said at the time.
“We are now correcting the removal, and you can expect to see Thepiratebay.org back in Google search results this afternoon,” the company added.
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Es geht los mit Super-Vectoring bei der Deutschen Telekom. Doch laut Deutschlandchef Dirk Wössner wollen die Kunden des Netzbetreibers gar keine sehr hohen Datenraten. (
Mac-Nutzer, die noch Office 2011 einsetzen wollen, haben bei einer Neuinstallation ein Problem: Der Aktivierungsserver von Microsoft steht nicht mehr zur Verfügung. Somit lässt sich die Software beispielsweise bei einem Rechnerwechsel nicht mehr nutzen. (
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