Month: August 2018

Der Chef der Telefónica kritisiert den Ausbau der Mobilfunknetze in Deutschland. Wie zuvor bereits die Telekom, greift er zudem 1&1 und Freenet an. (Telefónica, Freenet)

This week we have two newcomers in our chart.

Deadpool 2, released in a high quality format last week, 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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This week’s most downloaded movies are:

Movie Rank	Rank last week	Movie name	IMDb Rating / Trailer
Most downloaded movies via torrents
1	(7)	Deadpool 2	8.0 / trailer
2	(1)	Avengers: Infinity War	8.7 / trailer
3	(…)	Skyscraper (subbed HDRip)	6.1 / trailer
4	(2)	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (subbed HDRip)	6.5 / trailer
5	(3)	Rampage	6.3 / trailer
6	(6)	Overboard	7.9 / trailer
7	(4)	Escape Plan 2: Hades	3.9 / trailer
8	(5)	Sanju	8.8 / trailer
9	(…)	The Meg	6.3 / trailer
10	(9)	Raazi	7.9 / trailer

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Die beide Voyager-Sonden sind schon hindurch, New Horizons ist noch auf dem Weg dorthin: zur Grenze unseres Sonnensystems. Ein ultraviolettes Leuchten, das ein Instrument von New Horizons aufgenommen hat, könnte von dieser Grenze stammen. (New Horizons, Nasa)

Eigentlich richtig gut, trotzdem zu wenig Spieler: Das Multiplayer-Actionspiel Quake Champions ist ab sofort nur noch im Free-to-Play-Modell verfügbar. Die kostenlose Version enthält zwei Helden, alle weiteren muss der Spieler kaufen oder freischalten. (Quake, Steam)

Following a complaint filed by the BPI, City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) launched an investigation into UK-based individuals who uploaded unlicensed karaoke tracks to the Internet.

In February 2015, the BPI carried out test downloads of eight ‘pirate’ karaoke albums to which Sunfly Karaoke and Digitop held the rights. In December that year, police carried out raids in several locations, one of which targeted then 60-year-old Steve Mather.

“The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has dismantled a gang suspected of uploading and distributing tens of thousands of karaoke tracks online, including artists such as Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue and Kanye West,” PIPCU said in a statement.

Mather was part of Karaoke RG (KRG), a release group specializing in karaoke tracks. On KickassTorrents alone, their account had around 2,150 uploads.

KRG claimed they were servicing a gap in the market by hand-creating their own karaoke titles that weren’t commercially available. However, karaoke companies Digitop and Sunfly Karaoke saw things differently, claiming that the release group’s actions caused them losses of £485,000 and £29,593 respectively.

It’s taken more than two-and-a-half years but PIPCU now reports that after pleading guilty, 63-year-old Mather of Rochdale, Lancashire, has been handed an eight-month suspended sentence for illegally creating and distributing karaoke tracks without permission

“By making these tracks available to the public, this not only impacts upon the businesses involved, but also upon those who work for them by putting jobs at risk and negatively impacting upon the progress of the company,” said Acting Detective Chief Inspector, Nick Court of PIPCU.

“Mather has caused these companies to suffer significant financial losses. We take these crimes and the integrity of the UK creative industry very seriously. We put every effort into protecting their work.”

Kiaron Whitehead, BPI General Counsel said that as the leader of KaraokeRG, Mather caused serious harm to legitimate karaoke companies.

“KaraokeRG’s ringleader Steven Mather liked to use the nickname ‘KaraokeKid’. But, as he has learnt, the internet is not the Wild West,” Whitehead said.

“The BPI is pleased to have supported the City of London Police in their investigation into this case – which serves as a further clear warning and deterrent to music pirates that they will not go undetected and unpunished.”

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Mit dem Thinkpad P1 veröffentlicht Lenovo ein 15,6-Zoll-Workstation-Notebook mit schnellen Core-i9-Chips und Quadro-Grafikeinheit. Bereits die Minimalkonfiguration ist aber schon ziemlich teuer. (Thinkpad, Computer)

Elon Musk ist überzeugt, dass Teslas Fahrzeugsicherheitssoftware die beste Lösung gegen Hackerangriffe auf Autos ist. Er plant, sie kostenlos für andere Autohersteller anzubieten und als Open Source zu veröffentlichen. Gleichzeitig sollen Hacker bei ihren Teslas die Garantie nicht mehr verlieren. (Tesla, Urheberrecht)

Mit Linux 4.18 kommt der Berkely Packet Filter als Ersatz für Netfilter erheblich voran. Lustre fliegt raus, ein umstrittener Verschlüsselungsalgorithmus der NSA kommt vermutlich nur vorübergehend rein und die Sicherheitslücke Spectre macht den Kernel-Hackern weiterhin Arbeit. Von Jörg Thoma (Linux-Kernel, Server-Applikationen)

Tesla hat Ian Kettle abgeworben. Der Designer war bei Volvo unter anderem für die Entwicklung der Optik des SUV Volvo XC40 zuständig und dürfte bei Tesla am Facelift des Model S und am Crossover Model Y arbeiten. (Tesla, Technologie)

Die massenhafte Verbreitung von Elektroautos stellt das Stromnetz vor neue Herausforderungen. Doch verschiedenen Untersuchungen zufolge sind diese längst nicht so gravierend, wie von Kritikern befürchtet. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (Elektroauto, Technologie)