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Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is continuing to gather information on BitTorrent pirates. This information will be used to go after frequent seeders of pirated material. According to BREIN director Tim Kuik, individual downloaders will stay out of range for now because not all rightsholders support this approach. Kuik himself also believes that going after the suppliers is the better strategy.
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When it comes to civil anti-piracy enforcement, BREIN is without a doubt one of the best-known players in the industry.
Backed by Hollywood and other content industries, the group has been active for more than two decades in the Netherlands.
Aside from shutting down sites and going after sellers of pirate streaming boxes, BREIN is also planning to go after BitTorrent users. By using in-house software that automatically gathers IP-addresses of seeders, hundreds if not thousands of copyright infringers can be easily pinpointed.
At first sight, this practice is very similar to the “copyright trolling” efforts that are common around the world. However, the Dutch anti-piracy group is taking a more reserved approach.
Instead of going after the IP-addresses of anyone who’s connected to a torrent swarm, BREIN is mostly interested in structural seeders who upload content for a longer period of time. In other words, the group wants to target those who frequently offer pirated content.
This decision was brought up by BREIN director Tim Kuik in the Dutch podcast “Met Nerds om Tafel” recently. There, he explained that his organization represents a wide variety of rightsholders and not all of them support the idea of going after casual downloaders.
“Our enforcement efforts apply to all these copyright holders. Therefore, they all have to agree on how this takes place. At the moment there is no consensus within that group on how to deal with individual end-users,” Kuik says.
BREIN’s director believes that focusing on structural uploaders is the best approach in the case anyway.
“Personally, I have always had my doubts about going after individual downloaders. I believe you have to focus on the supply side,” he notes.
In theory, it’s possible for rightsholders to go after casual downloaders but that’s not something BREIN can do collectively. They work with funds that come from various parties who all have to agree on an approach.
TorrentFreak reached out to Kuik to clarify who the main targets are. Kuik says that pirate sites and services are the prime focus and that the planned mass settlement effort will focus on the most prolific uploaders in this ecosystem.
“We focus on early and large uploaders that function as a source of unauthorized content and we will expand that to frequent and prolonged uploaders that function as a lubricant keeping unauthorized content available over time,” Kuik tells us.
“Hit & run end users are at the end of the chain. We think they can best be approached with measures that raise their awareness, such as blocking access to illegal sites with referral to a landing page that explains why,” he adds.
Sending informative alert emails to users whose IP-addresses are linked to sharing pirated material is also an option. However, that’s something ISPs will have to cooperate with.
Enforcement may eventually shift to downloaders if there’s a situation where it’s impossible to go after the suppliers, Kuik notes. Then it makes sense to target downloaders as well.
This could also apply to torrent users. Kuik tells us that if other enforcement measures, such as site blocking or going after a hosting company, fail structurally the demand side could get more into the spotlight.
For now, however, uploaders are the targeted only. When BREIN plans start its campaign is yet unknown. 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 expected to target downloaders as well.
In the podcast, Kuik also provided some further insight and commentary on piracy in general. The issue of availability also came up. In particular, the fact that Game of Thrones is only available through a single telecom provider in the Netherlands, Ziggo.
This means that some people can’t access it legally, even if they wanted to. Kuik agreed that this is “strange,” but also noted that it’s one of the exceptions.
“That’s a particularly strange situation, in my opinion, but that’s something that should be taken up with Ziggo,” he says.
For BREIN’s director, it was never a preconceived plan to become a public copyright enforcement figure. After his law study, he took a summer job at a joint venture between the movie studios Paramount and Universal. This is where it all started.
“That’s when ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’ premiered in theaters, which was heavily pirated on videotapes. This also happened with other movies but E.T. made a lot of money and Steven Spielberg was extremely concerned. In a meeting, he burst into tears about it. Something had to be done,” Kuik says.
As a young legal expert, Kuik was called in to help. That would eventually turn him into a leading figure in the copyright enforcement world who helped to found dozens of local anti-piracy outfits around the world.
This work is appreciated by many rightsholders, but it also results in quite a few hateful comments from people who disagree with BREIN’s efforts. That doesn’t really bother Kuik much through.
“My fans are at the copyright holders. If you don’t have any enemies then you never stood up for something,” Kuik concludes.
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Netflix mum on details of Goop deal as top Goop critic teases her own series.
Enlarge / Gwyneth Paltrow attends the In Goop Health Summit on June 9, 2018 in Culver City, California. (credit: Getty | Phillip Faraone)
If you’re one for Netflix bingeing, you may want to grab a bucket.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle and “contextual commerce” venture, Goop, has signed a deal with Netflix to produce a wellness "docuseries"—despite the brand’s sordid history of making unsubstantiated and abhorrent health claims.
The deal was first made public in an article on Variety.com on Monday. The outlet interviewed Goop’s chief content officer, Elise Loehnen, who said the series will contain 30-minute episodes and “utilize experts, doctors, and researchers to examine issues relating to physical and spiritual wellness.”
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Pai’s FCC is too secretive and too beholden to corporations, Democrats say.
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaks during an FCC oversight hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday, August 16, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
Democratic lawmakers have put Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on notice that he can expect a lot more scrutiny now that Democrats control the US House of Representatives.
The House Commerce Committee is "reassuming its traditional role of oversight to ensure the agency is acting in the best interest of the public and consistent with its legislative authority," Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) said in an announcement yesterday.
Pallone, Jr. and Doyle wrote a letter to Pai, saying that he has made the FCC too secretive and has repeatedly advanced the interests of corporations over consumers.
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Paris has been urging other EU states to more heavily tax Silicon Valley giants.
Enlarge / A woman holding a smartphone walks past the Apple Store on January 04, 2019 in Berlin. (credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Apple has reportedly paid 10 years of back taxes to the French tax authority—around €500 million (over $570 million)—according to L’Express, a business newspaper.
The iPhone maker has been under pressure to pay taxes to European Union countries after it was found to have engaged in legal financial chicanery to drastically mitigate its tax burden.
Ars reported previously that Apple pays an effective 2.3 percent tax rate on overseas profits by using various legal tax mechanisms across several countries as a way to minimize its tax burden. Google, Microsoft, and many other large multinational corporations engage in similar behavior. (Ars has also detailed how such arrangements typically work.)
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The North Pole is moving in the direction of Siberia, necessitating an update.
On Monday, NOAA announced the release of an update to the World Magnetic Model, a tool that tracks how the Earth's magnetic field changes depending on where you're located on the planet. Updates to this system typically happen every five years, but the relatively rapid motion of the North Pole has necessitated an accelerated schedule for this update—which then ended up delayed by the recent shutdown of the US Federal Government.
The Earth's magnetic field doesn't neatly line up with the geometry of our near-spherical planet. In certain areas of the planet, like the South Atlantic Anomaly, the strength of the field varies considerably. And the magnetic poles frequently don't line up with the pole defined by the axis of the Earth's rotation. Complicating matters further, the field also changes over time. Over the last few decades, the largest change has been the motion of the magnetic North Pole, which has shifted from the Canadian side of the geographic North Pole to the Russian side.
All of these differences can cause problems for people and devices that attempt to navigate using the magnetic field. To compensate, the US’ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom’s Defence Geographic Centre have combined to build the World Magnetic Model. The model is accompanied by software that helps navigation services adjust to the magnetic field's quirks. Users reportedly include Apple and Google, which include it in their phone software.
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Die Telefónica klagt nun mit aufschiebender Wirkung gegen die Auktion der 5G-Frequenzen in der zweiten Märzhälfte. Bisherige Klagen hatten nicht dieses Ziel. (5G, Telekom)
GM says layoffs are needed to prepare for big industry changes.
Enlarge / GM CEO Mary Barra. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
GM is laying off another 4,000 workers, the company acknowledged on Monday. The cuts are on top of thousands of job cuts the company announced last November.
Those earlier cuts were concentrated on the factory floor, with GM shuttering five manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada. The new cuts, by contrast, are to salaried white-collar jobs. Individual workers will be notified over the next two weeks, the company said.
GM has reported billions of dollars of profits over the last three quarters. But CEO Mary Barra argues that GM still needs to cut its costs to prepare for the dramatic changes facing the automotive industry in the coming years.
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Die Telefónica klagt nun mit aufschiebender Wirkung gegen die Auktion der 5G-Frequenzen in der zweiten Märzhälfte. Bisherige Klagen hatten nicht dieses Ziel. (
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