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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/22/18

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’. ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ completes the top three.

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This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

The Spy Who Dumped Me 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	(…)	The Spy Who Dumped Me	6.2 / trailer
2	(2)	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again	7.1 / trailer
3	(1)	Ant-Man and the Wasp	7.3 / trailer
4	(4)	The First Purge	5.2 / trailer
5	(3)	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	6.3 / trailer
6	(…)	Slender Man	3.1 / trailer
7	(5)	Solo: A Star Wars Story	7.1 / trailer
8	(…)	Galveston	6.2 / trailer
9	(6)	Sicario: Day of the Soldado	7.3 / trailer
10	(8)	The Meg (Subbed HDRip)	6.0 / trailer

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Bradley Kuhn: Free-Software-Aktivist kritisiert MongoDB-Lizenzwechsel

Der Lizenz- und Compliance-Experte Bradley M. Kuhn von der Software Freedom Conservancy zeigt sich wenig begeistert vom Lizenzwechsel bei MongoDB. Die OSI solle die Lizenz ablehnen und MongoDB klar als proprietär bezeichnen. (MongoDB, GPL)

Displaybruch: Reparatur des iPhone Xr wird teuer

Anlässlich des Verkaufsstarts des iPhone Xr in der kommenden Woche hat Apple dessen Reparaturpreise veröffentlicht. Die Behebung eines Displaybruchs wird teurer als beim iPhone 8. (iPhone X, Apple)

Elektroauto: Audi E-Tron verspätet sich wegen Softwareproblemen

Audi kann sein Elektro-SUV E-Tron nicht wie geplant ausliefern. Grund sollen Softwareprobleme sein, die erst behoben werden müssen. Noch ist nicht klar, ob das wenige Wochen oder Monate kosten wird. Bei den Akkus soll es finanzielle Streitigkeiten gebe…

Telekommunikation: Mit dem Laser durch die Wolken

Laser könnten Daten von Satelliten viel besser übertragen als Radiowellen. Aber was tun bei schlechtem Wetter? Forscher aus der Schweiz haben einen Weg gefunden und machen sich dabei jahrzehntealte Forschung zunutze. (Wissenschaft, Verschlüsselung)

OpenVPN CEO: “Choose a VPN That Doesn’t Allow BitTorrent”

OpenVPN is one of the biggest names in the VPN industry. Many providers use the trusted protocol and open source software which have been around for nearly two decades. Despite the good reputation, OpenVPN Inc’s CEO came out with a rather surprising statement this week, stressing that it’s “essential to choose a VPN that doesn’t allow the use of BitTorrent.”

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With privacy scandals and security breaches dominating news headlines, more and more people are signing up with a VPN service.

A properly configured VPN hides people’s IP-addresses from online snoopers and state of the art encryption also protects against some malicious attacks.

While that sound like a good idea, there’s a catch. In return for this protection, all your traffic is routed through the VPN provider, which means that you’re putting a lot of trust in the company.

We have addressed this issue in the past and were happy to see that it was also highlighted by Francis Dinha, the CEO of OpenVPN Inc, which owns the software which many VPN services rely on.

Dinha rightfully points out that picking the right VPN requires some careful thought. This was also one of the reasons why we previously began compiling our yearly overview of various VPN policies.

As we read further, however, the advice goes in an unexpected direction. Many people believe that VPNs are supposed to be content-neutral, but Dinha warns against using a VPN with BitTorrent and the dark web.

“Use of the wrong VPN to go through BitTorrent and access the dark web just to get to ‘free’ content exposes you to bad actors who can extract value out of whatever you’re receiving in other ways,” he writes in a Forbes piece.

“Such practices put you at risk of running afoul of piracy, copyright violation and fraud laws. Unrestricted access also exposes you to malware and viruses and a lack of protection entirely from the risks in the dark web.”

We fail to see how BitTorrent is linked to the dark web. It is nothing more than a file-transfer protocol, after all. And even if it is somehow related, what has that got to do with a VPN?

It’s not a secret that BitTorrent has a piracy stigma. And it makes sense to advise people not to break the law, with or without a VPN, but Dinha goes quite a few steps further. In the article, he recommends that people use a VPN that blocks BitTorrent traffic.

“For all these reasons, it’s essential to choose a VPN that doesn’t allow the use of BitTorrent and follows all applicable United States laws. It’s the only way to protect yourself against liability,” he stresses.

So, for some reason, a VPN that allows BitTorrent traffic causes liability issues? That’s a bit far-fetched, to say the least, because all regular ISPs allow BitTorrent traffic just fine. And for a good reason.

BitTorrent has plenty of legal use cases and companies including Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter all use it internally. If the Comcasts, Bells, and Virgin Medias of this world don’t block it, why should a VPN?

Calling for a BitTorrent ban isn’t very open for a company that’s called OpenVPN, and it remains a mystery why and how that might shield users from “liability.” Perhaps it’s a PR plug for OpenVPN’s own VPN service PrivateTunnel?

Well, that brings us to a rather ironic situation.

Considering the comments from OpenVPN’s CEO, we would expect PrivateTunnel to ban all BitTorrent traffic outright. However, when we asked the VPN’s support desk we were informed that P2P ‘blocking’ rules are not enabled in the Netherlands and Switzerland. Hmmm…

Anyway, those who prefer a more open VPN that allows all traffic, just like their regular ISP, can find a long list of BitTorrent-friendly VPNs here.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Topjoy Falcon 8 inch convertible laptop preview

Tiny laptops are having their moment… again. A decade after the rise and fall of netbooks and UMPCs, a crop of Chinese device makers is breathing new life into the idea of laptops with small screens and tiny keyboards. The TopJoy Falcon is the la…

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Lithium giants feud over competition, brine in Chile’s Atacama Desert

Albemarle and SQM can’t settle water disputes and a sale might draw them closer.

Two of the world's biggest lithium producers, Albemarle Corporation and Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (otherwise known as SQM), are tangled in two disputes: the first over water rights in Chile's Atacama desert, and the second over ownership of SQM.

Both Albemarle and and SQM have significant operations in the Atacama desert, where some of the world's best lithium resources exist. As electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries become more popular, lithium resources are becoming more valuable. That has created some conflict in an industry that has long remained relatively quiet.

Who's drinking whom's milkshake?

This week, Reuters reported that both Albemarle and SQM have accused each other of overdrawing brine from the Atacama's underground aquifers. Both companies have operations in the Atacama's Salar, and their operations are just three miles apart from each other. The brine water that has been accumulating for millennia under the Atacama is lithium-rich, and companies pump it out and send the brine to evaporation ponds where heat extracts the water and leaves the reactive alkali metal behind.

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Bundesnetzagentur: Regierung will gemeinsames 5G-Netz auf dem Land durchsetzen

Bei einem geheimen Treffen haben drei Unionsminister die Bundesnetzagentur unter Druck gesetzt, damit die Vergabebedingungen für 5G geändert werden. Doch die Auflagen sind sinnvoll. (5G, Bundesnetzagentur)

The Guilty review: Even in 2018, a simple phone can be utterly thrilling

Director tells Ars—”This is like us not trying to show the shark for the whole film.”

Ars chats up The Guilty writer/director Gustav Möller in a particularly Ars-y (and dark) karaoke room at Fantastic Fest 2018 (produced/edited by Nathan Mattise; transcript available). (video link)

AUSTIN, Texas—Browsing through written descriptions (whether in this year’s Fantastic Fest brochure or this weekend’s movie listings), The Guilty might sound remarkably unremarkable: a cop on desk duty takes a panicked 9-1-1 call and has to figure out what’s happening. It sounds like a classic high-stakes, detective-against-time story, but what makes its intriguing is that the entire film never leaves the detective’s office—the cinematic equivalent of a bottle episode.

Danish writer/director Gustav Möller has created something special with those constraints, and anyone lucky enough to find The Guilty playing nearby during its limited US theatrical release should take advantage of it. The film feels like a masterclass in minimalism in all aspects, from the way it doles out information to the performance of its lead to the so-good-you-can’t-help-but-notice-it sound design. The Guilty is a film you can’t look away from despite the visuals being its least interesting part.

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