Month: November 2018

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In recent years many pirates have moved from downloading to streaming and, as a result, anti-piracy groups have amended their strategies.

Backed by the major film studios, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has been one of the frontrunners in the area.

The organization booked a promiment victory against Filmspeler last year when the European Court of Justice ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content.

Paired with the earlier GS Media ruling, which held that companies with a for-profit motive can’t knowingly link to copyright-infringing material, this provides a powerful enforcement tool.

With both decisions in hand, BREIN has contacted dozens of vendors that sell unauthorized services, urging them to stop.

This has been rather successful. This year alone, 75 sellers of IPTV and VOD subscriptions have settled their claims, resulting in settlements, penalties, and other costs totaling roughly 300,000 euros.

BREIN director Tim Kuik informs TorrentFreak that there are also a handful of pending cases where vendors have yet to sign a cease and desist order or agree to pay a settlement. If these efforts fail, these will be taken to court.

This legal threat is not a bluff. BREIN has already won civil verdicts against two vendors, Moviestreamer and Leaper, which were both ordered to shut down.

The anti-piracy group generally approaches online vendors but brick-and-mortar stores are also at risk. Last month, the police in The Hague seized a dozen IPTV boxes that were sold together with an IPTV subscription, for example.

The police took this action on their own initiative and BREIN wasn’t involved directly. However, the group is working with police to provide training on collecting infringement related evidence.

“BREIN is agreeing with police to provide training to detect and secure evidence of infringing trade by offline stores,” Kuik tells TorrentFreak.

Following the GS Media and Filmspeler verdicts, BREIN has tracked down 275 vendors of illegal streaming boxes. Roughly 50 of these stopped their activities before the anti-piracy group reached out.

“It is still a sensible idea to stop before you get caught because the owed amounts can increase quite a bit,” Kuik notes.

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In recent years many pirates have moved from downloading to streaming and, as a result, anti-piracy groups have amended their strategies.

Backed by the major film studios, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has been one of the frontrunners in the area.

The organization booked a promiment victory against Filmspeler last year when the European Court of Justice ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content.

Paired with the earlier GS Media ruling, which held that companies with a for-profit motive can’t knowingly link to copyright-infringing material, this provides a powerful enforcement tool.

With both decisions in hand, BREIN has contacted dozens of vendors that sell unauthorized services, urging them to stop.

This has been rather successful. This year alone, 75 sellers of IPTV and VOD subscriptions have settled their claims, resulting in settlements, penalties, and other costs totaling roughly 300,000 euros.

BREIN director Tim Kuik informs TorrentFreak that there are also a handful of pending cases where vendors have yet to sign a cease and desist order or agree to pay a settlement. If these efforts fail, these will be taken to court.

This legal threat is not a bluff. BREIN has already won civil verdicts against two vendors, Moviestreamer and Leaper, which were both ordered to shut down.

The anti-piracy group generally approaches online vendors but brick-and-mortar stores are also at risk. Last month, the police in The Hague seized a dozen IPTV boxes that were sold together with an IPTV subscription, for example.

The police took this action on their own initiative and BREIN wasn’t involved directly. However, the group is working with police to provide training on collecting infringement related evidence.

“BREIN is agreeing with police to provide training to detect and secure evidence of infringing trade by offline stores,” Kuik tells TorrentFreak.

Following the GS Media and Filmspeler verdicts, BREIN has tracked down 275 vendors of illegal streaming boxes. Roughly 50 of these stopped their activities before the anti-piracy group reached out.

“It is still a sensible idea to stop before you get caught because the owed amounts can increase quite a bit,” Kuik notes.

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

Google’s Project Fi wireless network is growing up. Started in 2015 as a somewhat experimental service, the network originally supported only a few Google-branded phones. Over the past year, Project Fi has slowly added support for a few more devices… but selection was limited. Today Google is dramatically expanding the list of supported phones. The […]

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Die Bundesregierung will das Internet als "öffentliches Gut und Grundrecht" schützen. Damit unterstützt sie eine Initiative von WWW-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee. (Bundesregierung, W3C)

Less than half a year after launching its first gaming smartphone, Nubia is getting ready to release a second. The follow-up to the Nubia Red Magic is called the Red Magic Mars and it has a faster processor, a new cooling system, and more RAM: the new phone will be one of the first to support up […]

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Nach 32 Jahren ist Schluss mit der Cebit und das ist mehr als schade. Wir waren dabei, als sie noch nicht nur die größte, sondern auch die beste Messe der Welt war - und haben dann erlebt, wie Trends verschlafen wurden. Ein Nachruf. Von Nico Ernst (Cebit, Messe)

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In der Debatte um die Einführung eines Eigentums am "Rohstoff" Daten haben sich die Verbraucherschützer zu Wort gemeldet. Sie halten sehr wenig von dem neuen Konzept, für das die Bundesregierung wirbt. Die Probleme ließen sich ohne neue Gesetze lösen. Von Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti (Datenschutz, Verbraucherschutz)