Month: May 2019

Hyundai und Kia haben zusammen 80 Millionen Euro in das kroatische Unternehmen Rimac investiert, das Supersportwagen mit Elektroantrieb baut. Gemeinsam sollen nun zwei neue Sportwagen entstehen. (Hyundai, Technologie)

Forscher haben weitere Seitenkanalangriffe auf Intel-Prozessoren entdeckt, die sie Microarchitectural Data Sampling alias Zombieload nennen. Der Hersteller wusste davon und reagiert mit CPU-Revisionen. Apple rät dazu, Hyperthreading abzuschalten - was 40 Prozent Performance kosten kann. Ein Bericht von Marc Sauter und Sebastian Grüner (Intel, Prozessor)

Die meisten modernen Rechner haben heutzutage schnelle USB-Verbindungen, doch beim Netzwerkanschluss hapert es. Trendnet will in Kürze einen 2.5GbE-Netwerkadapter (802.3bz, NBase-T) für USB Typ C auf den Markt bringen. Etwas später folgt die 5GbE-Variante. (5GbE, Netzwerk)

Die sich entwickelnde Elektromobilität sorgt für Begehrlichkeiten bei Akkus. Volvo hat sich nun Zugriff auf Akkus von CATL und LG Chem im Wert von mehreren Milliarden US-Dollar gesichert. (Volvo, Technologie)

While Kim Dotcom remains embroiled in the largest copyright battle New Zealand has ever seen, the country’s National Party has been facing ‘infringement’ problems of its own.

In 2014 Eminem’s publisher took the National Party to court over alleged copyright infringement of the rapper’s track ‘Lose Yourself’ in an election campaign video.

At the time, the party was led by then Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key, who’s seen as Dotcom’s nemesis. In common with the Megaupload case, the dispute between the National Party and Eminem’s publisher continued to drag on.

The National Party didn’t simply use the track without paying for it. They actually sought professional advice before starting the campaign and licensed a track called Eminem Esque, which is the one they used in the ad.

The party hoped to avoid more expensive licensing fees by using the knock-off song, but the High Court previously ruled that the similarities between Lose Yourself and Eminem Esque are so significant that it breached copyright.

In 2017 the Court ordered the National Party to pay $600,000 for the copyright infringement, an amount neither side was satisfied with. In a subsequent ruling a year later, the Court of Appeal sided with the National Party, reducing the damages to $225,000.

Eminem’s publisher, Eight Mile Style, wasn’t pleased with the outcome and asked the Supreme Court to take it on.

During a hearing two weeks ago the publisher’s lawyer, Gary Williams, told the Court that the damages amount was too low. The rightsholders would have demanded a premium for the song, especially since it was used for political advertising, he argued before the court.

This week the New Zealand Supreme Court decided that it will not allow the appeal, Stuff reports. There is no doubt that the National Party’s use of the track was not permitted, but the Court doesn’t believe an extended legal fight over the damages amount is warranted.

“Given the concurrent findings of fact in the courts below rejecting the contention that the National Party turned a blind eye to the risk of infringement or was reckless, we do not see sufficient prospect of success in an argument that additional damages should have been awarded in this case to justify the grant of leave for a further appeal,” the Court wrote.

This effectively ends the legal battle after five years. The National Party will be happy to move on from this copyright infringement row. For Kim Dotcom, however, the battle continues.

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For those wondering if the music used in the National Party’s ad campaign is indeed similar to the original Eminem track, a copy is available below.

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Ein niederländisches Jungunternehmen hat ein ungewöhnliches Fahrzeug entwickelt, das Luxus und Umweltfreundlichkeit kombiniert. Solarzellen auf dem Dach erhöhen die Reichweite um bis zu 220 Kilometer. Von Wolfgang Kempkens (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Citroën hat mit dem 19-19 ein Konzeptfahrzeug für ein autonom fahrendes Elektroauto mit 800 km Reichweite vorgestellt, das vor allem zeigen soll, wie sehr sich die Passagierkabine ändern könnte, wenn herkömmliche Designs aufgegeben würden. (Citroën, Technologie)

Das Telefonieren mit dem Handy legt weiter zu. Im vergangenen Jahr haben die Deutschen erstmals mehr vom Mobiltelefon als vom Festnetztelefon angerufen. Der SMS-Versand wird immer weniger genutzt und die weggefallenen Roaminggebühren machen sich bemerkbar. (Telekommunikation, Mobilfunk)

There are hundreds of file-hosting services on the Internet, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. 

Nofile is generally known as a no-nonsense service that’s free to everyone. The site launched two years ago and has been building a steady userbase ever since.

Recently, however, the site suddenly stopped working (it came back just hours ago). Checking the domain records revealed that the NS records had been removed, which made it impossible to access the site. The question was, why?

A search through U.S. court records provided some possibly relevant context. It revealed that the music industry group RIAA targeted the site through a DMCA subpoena, directed at Nofile’s domain name registrar Namecheap.

The RIAA requested the subpoena at a federal court in Columbia, which was swiftly signed off by a clerk. The paperwork includes a letter addressed to Namecheap, in which the music group demands detailed information on the customer associated with the file-hosting service’s domain.

“We have determined that a user of your system or network has infringed our member record companies’ copyrighted sound recordings,” the RIAA’s letter reads.

“The website associated with this domain name offers files containing sound recordings which are owned by one or more of our member companies and have not been authorized for this kind of use, including without limitation those referenced at the URL below.”

The URL in question is not just some random piece of music. It points to the upload of a leaked track by rapper ‘Tyler, the Creator,’ titled ‘Earfquake.’

The track has been circulating online for roughly a week. It was uploaded to hosting services such as Nofile.io and shared online through Leakth.is, 4Chan, Reddit, and other platforms. Whether Nofile.io played a significant role in the distribution is unknown, but it could be the site where it first appeared.

In any case, the RIAA would like to find out who’s running the site. The music group requests all electronic information that may help to identify the account holder, including IP-addresses, email, and payment information.

“As is stated in the attached subpoena, you are required to disclose to the RIAA information sufficient to identify the infringer. This would include the individual’s name, physical address, IP address, telephone number, e-mail address, payment information, account updates and account history,” the RIAA writes.

Shortly after the subpoena was granted Nofile.io became unreachable. When we started writing this article it was still offline but just before publication, it returned. The leaked file the RIAA referenced is still hosted there as well.

Interestingly, this is the second DMCA subpoena the RIAA has obtained in a short period of time. Little over a week ago we reported that the group is also going after several ‘pirate’ sites that use Cloudflare.

Both requests use boilerplate language and only require a clerk’s signature to become enforceable. This makes it a rather cheap and effective option to find out more about site owners so it would be no surprise if we see these more often going forward.

Whether it’s the RIAA’s main goal to shut down the site is questionable though. In this case, the music group will likely be more interested in finding out who uploaded the leaked file, if that’s the source.

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A copy of the RIAA’s letter to Namecheap is available here (pdf).

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