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Final Fantasy 7 Remake angespielt: Cloud Strife und die (fast) unendliche Geschichte

Das Remake von Final Fantasy 7 wird ein Riesenprojekt, allein die erste Episode erscheint auf zwei Blu-ray-Discs. Kurios: In wie viele Folgen das bereits enorm umfangreiche Original von 1997 aufgeteilt wird, kann bislang nicht mal der Producer sagen. …

BREIN Criticizes Bullet-Proof Hosts, Forces Pirate Webcasters to Get Licenses

In a relatively unusual action, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN says it has forced three unlicensed Internet radio broadcasters to obtain licensing. A fourth has shut down. Other stations targeted by BREIN state that they’re owned by their streaming platform, a matter that is complicated by its status as a so-called bullet-proof host set up to protect its customers’ privacy.

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While millions of the world’s pirates are focused on sites offering movies, TV shows, music, videogames and software, many are enjoying unlicensed content without even knowing it.

There are tens of thousands of radio stations on the Internet, most of which require licensing to operate legally. However, many operate on a hobbyist basis, with official paperwork and sanctioning left as a mere afterthought.

For many, there are zero consequences for taking this approach but for several Netherlands-based Internet stations, that didn’t turn out to be the case.

Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN informs TorrentFreak that following information provided by one of its members SENA, it successfully targeted four Dutch radio stations, or webcasters as they’re sometimes known.

SENA helps artists and producers exploit neighboring rights and part of that effort involves webcasters/stations paying the group a license fee to operate. Once paid, stations are able to display the SENA logo to indicate they are above board. The four stations in question, all Netherlands-based according to BREIN, hadn’t paid the necessary fee.

“The radio streams of the channels are provided by a hosting provider based abroad that is not affiliated with Stichting Webcasting Nederland and does not otherwise have the required licenses,” BREIN said in a statement.

Following BREIN’s approach, three paid up. A fourth took the nuclear option and shut down. However, BREIN had other stations on its radar too, but they indicated their streaming host is the formal owner of their channels.

The host, which BREIN says operates under the IDFNV and Microglo brands, offers Shoutcast and IceCast server hosting, among other things. The anti-piracy outfit says that the company failed to respond to a demand for it to obtaining licensing for the stations or shut them down. That probably didn’t come as a surprise.

“A complicating factor is that host profiles itself as a ‘bullet-proof host’ and is based in the Seychelles,” BREIN explains.

“In other words, the host will never provide data and states that it has nothing to do with Dutch or EU regulations. The host wants to make himself and his customers invulnerable to enforcement actions.”

However, both sales portals for the host offer servers inside the EU and indeed the Netherlands, a “vulnerability” that BREIN may yet exploit. BREIN adds that licensors could also play a part, by refusing to do business with webcasters and stations that utilize such companies.

“Licensors could make it a condition that licensees do not use hosts that deliberately also host unauthorized channels. After all, such hosts earn money from illegality and should not be supported by the legal providers,” BREIN says.

This type of action is rarely publicized but BREIN chief Tim Kuik says his company has carried out this type of enforcement before.

“It is not our job to license but we will enforce on the request of our participating right holders,” Kuik concludes.

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Nachrüstung: Elektrofahrzeuge sollen hörbar werden

Ein breites Bündnis mehrerer Verbände fordert ein verpflichtendes Warngeräusch für Elektrofahrzeuge. So sollen Ältere, Kinder, Sehbehinderte aber auch Fahrradfahrer und unaufmerksame Menschen vor der Gefahr herannahender Autos gewarnt werden. Auch eine…

Fyrtur und Kadrilj: Ikeas smarte Rollläden verzögern sich abermals

Eigentlich sollten die Rollos Fyrtur und Kadrilj aus Ikeas Trådfri-Serie im April erscheinen, doch daraus ist nichts geworden. Nun wird als neues Lieferdatum der Heimautomatisierungstechnik August 2019 angegeben. (Ikea, Google Assistant)

Ghost Recon Breakpoint angespielt: Humpelnd, rutschend und stolpernd durch den Dschungel

Hoppla – die Böschung ist zu steil gewesen: In Ghost Recon Breakpoint müssen wir als Elitesoldat mit neuen Herausforderungen bei der Steuerung klarkommen. Nach kurzer Eingewöhnung finden wir das so gut, dass wir es künftig in mehr Spielen erwarten. (G…

Hoppla - die Böschung ist zu steil gewesen: In Ghost Recon Breakpoint müssen wir als Elitesoldat mit neuen Herausforderungen bei der Steuerung klarkommen. Nach kurzer Eingewöhnung finden wir das so gut, dass wir es künftig in mehr Spielen erwarten. (Ghost Recon, Ubisoft)

Markenrechtsstreit: Apple zieht Einspruch gegen Apfelroute-Logo zurück

Das Logo des neuen Fahrradwanderwegs Apfelroute kann bleiben, wie es ist. Der Rhein-Voreifel-Touristik hat sich außergerichtlich mit Apple geeinigt. (Apple, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Here’s what an Apple TV and Alexa look like on an old TV and record player cabinet

Two videos demonstrate the results of a Herculean (if pointless) effort.

Consumer and household tech obviously looks quite different today than it did years ago—there's a significant analog and digital divide, for one thing. Among other things, bridging that gap makes integrating the latest tech with tech from a few decades back a real challenge. But it's not impossible.

Facebook user Thomas Martin Lewins V proved that last point by getting a modern Apple TV box to work with his gigantic, archaic console television and by integrating analog speakers, radios, and record players throughout his house with Amazon Alexa. He posted a couple of videos online as proof, which Boing Boing picked up recently.

First up: the Apple TV setup. This allows him to view Netflix and Hulu shows on that old TV. Here's what he wrote to introduce the clip:

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Little Danny Torrance is all grown up and still shining in Doctor Sleep trailer

Director Mike Flanagan also created last year’s adaptation of Haunting of Hill House.

Ewan McGregor stars as adult Danny Torrance in the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Doctor Sleep, a follow-up to The Shining.

A hospice worker with psychic abilities must confront the horrors of his past to protect a young girl from a murderous cult in the first trailer for Doctor Sleep, the big-screen adaptation of horror master Stephen King's novel. It's a sequel of sorts, since both the novel and film explore what happened to young Danny Torrance as he grew into adulthood after the horrifying events of The Shining.

King published The Shining in 1977. It became his first hardback bestseller and was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, starring Jack Nicholson as struggling alcoholic and aspiring writer Jack Torrance. Initial reviews weren't particularly favorable—King himself is not a fan of the film—but it's now considered a horror classic.

For those not familiar with the story, Jack Torrance takes a position as the winter caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, bringing his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd). Danny has a psychic gift, called "the shining," which lets him communicate telepathically with the hotel cook, Dick Halloran (Scatman Crothers). The hotel is haunted, and the previous caretaker went mad and murdered his family. Jack ultimately succumbs to the same madness, although Wendy and Danny manage to escape with their lives.

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Ajit Pai says NOAA and NASA are wrong about 5G harming weather forecasts

Pai tells Congress that NOAA warnings are based on bad data.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai listening at a Senate hearing.

The FCC recently auctioned spectrum in the 24GHz band under controversial circumstances, as experts from other federal agencies warned that cellular transmissions in that band may significantly reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts.

When asked about the controversy at yesterday's Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Pai said that data provided by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is faulty. He also criticized the agencies for raising concerns "at the 11th hour."

Calling NOAA's study "fundamentally flawed," Pai said, "For example, it ignores the fact that 5G will involve beamforming, essentially adaptive antenna arrays that will more precisely send 5G signals—sort of a rifle shot, if you will, instead of a shotgun blast of 5G spectrum."

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Lilbits 371: AT&T’s first 5G phone is coming… but not for you

When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S10 and S10+ earlier this year, the company also introduced its first 5G-ready smartphone: the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G. You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s basically the same phone with the addition of a 5G mo…

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