Month: March 2019

Nach dem chaotischen Preisfindungsprozess für das Model 3 hat Tesla nun damit begonnen, etwa ein Drittel seiner Personalbeschaffer zu entlassen, um die Kosten zu senken und den Einstiegspreis des Model 3 bei 35.000 US-Dollar zu halten. (Tesla, Technologie)

Der Musikmarkt hat sich auch im vergangenen Jahr weiter gewandelt. Erstmals ist der Anteil an Einnahmen durch Musikstreamingabos höher als durch den CD-Verkauf. (Streaming, Musik)

Corel hat mit der Corel Draw Graphics Suite 2019 das erste Mal seit 2001 das Programmpaket nicht nur für den PC, sondern auch für den Mac veröffentlicht. Neben dem Dark-Mode wird die Touch Bar des Macbook Pro unterstützt. (Corel, Grafiksoftware)

Distribution and uploading of copyrighted content without an appropriate license is illegal in most countries of the world.

It is seen as the most damaging form of infringement, largely on the basis that this fuels illicit downloading.

Straightforward downloading of movies, TV shows and other unlicensed content is rarely, if ever, policed, even when such activity is proscribed under law, as is the case in the EU following rulings from the European Court of Justice.

In Japan, however, new legislation under consideration by the government would’ve taken things to a whole new level. Criminalizing the unlicensed downloading of all content – including the pasting of lyrics or taking of screenshots – struck fear into Internet users and experts alike.

With serious punishments under consideration (up to two years in prison and fines of two million yen – US$18,000), serious alarm bells were sounded, with academics coming out strongly in opposition. Now, however, the government has become sufficiently unsettled and has shelved the proposals altogether.

The planned copyright amendments were set to be submitted to the Diet on March 8, 2019 but Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP or Jimintō) put the brakes on the proposals the day before they were due to be submitted.

Early this morning the Japanese government took the decision not to submit the bill to the Diet at all, after executives failed to approve it.

“We have yet to eliminate the worries of both copyright holders and [internet] users,” said House of Councillors lawmaker Masaaki Akaike, as cited by Mainichi. “We should work on it anew.”

The proposals also contained measures to deal with ‘pirate’ indexing sites (known locally as “leech sites”) which don’t host any infringing content themselves but provide hyperlinks to content hosted elsewhere. Estimates suggest that around 200 such sites exist in Japan.

The aim was to criminalize the act of knowingly linking to copyrighted content, or linking to the same when site operators should “reasonably be expected” to know that the content is infringing. Unlike the anti-downloading provisions, plans to criminalize site operators with sentences of up to five years in prison were met with little opposition.

If approved, the revisions to Japan’s copyright law were set to take effect on January 1, 2020, but it’s now unclear whether that target will be met.

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Der Shockwave-Player von Adobe gehörte zu den vielen lästigen Plugins, die im vergangenen Jahrzehnt in so manchem Browser installiert wurden. Bekannt dürfte Shockwave den meisten durch die ewigen Meldungen von Sicherheitslücken sein. Doch Golem.de hat damals auch 3D-Shooter im Netzwerk damit gespielt. Von Andreas Sebayang (Adobe, Grafiksoftware)

Vom Menschenaffen in Ape Out zum Steinzeitmenschen in Dawn of Man und weiter zur Weltraumkolonie in Space Engineers: Die Indiegames-Rundschau deckt im März 2019 ein besonders breites Spektrum an Spielen ab. Von Rainer Sigl (Indiegames Rundschau, Games)

Das schwedische Möbelhaus Ikea macht seine Möbel zugänglicher für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Dafür dienen 13 Modelle, die jeder selbst ausdrucken kann. (Ikea, Barrierefreiheit)

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending March 2, 2019, are in. While the release wasn't big enough to actually break the Internet, but this week's top seller did help Blu-ray record one of the best weeks in recent times. Find out which movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.

Das kanadische Unternehmen Lion Electric hat einen Elektrolaster für die Stadt vorgestellt. Der Lion8 soll in diesem Herbst auf den Markt kommen. (Elektromobilität, Technologie)

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