Die modulare Smartwatch Blocks wird nicht erscheinen. Vier Jahre nach erfolgreicher Durchführung einer Kickstarter-Kampagne ist dem dahinterstehenden Unternehmen das Geld ausgegangen. (Smartwatch, Mobil)
Die modulare Smartwatch Blocks wird nicht erscheinen. Vier Jahre nach erfolgreicher Durchführung einer Kickstarter-Kampagne ist dem dahinterstehenden Unternehmen das Geld ausgegangen. (Smartwatch, Mobil)
Fotos von Freunden und der Familie, Anspielungen auf Hobbys und teaminterne Scherze: Jason Hickey von Insomniac Games hat erzählt, wie er und sein Team in Marvel’s Spider-Man persönliche und politische Inhalte versteckt hätten. (Spider-Man, Games)
Fotos von Freunden und der Familie, Anspielungen auf Hobbys und teaminterne Scherze: Jason Hickey von Insomniac Games hat erzählt, wie er und sein Team in Marvel's Spider-Man persönliche und politische Inhalte versteckt hätten. (Spider-Man, Games)
Die erste Straße Frankreichs, die Strom aus Sonnenlicht gewinnen sollte, hat die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt. Sie hat nicht nur viel weniger Strom als erwartet erzeugt, sie fällt auch auseinander. (Solarenergie, Erneuerbare Energien)
Die erste Straße Frankreichs, die Strom aus Sonnenlicht gewinnen sollte, hat die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt. Sie hat nicht nur viel weniger Strom als erwartet erzeugt, sie fällt auch auseinander. (Solarenergie, Erneuerbare Energien)
Einige in der Beta 6 von WatchOS 5 aufgetauchte Animationen verraten etwas über die Apple Watch Series 5. Die noch für dieses Jahr erwartete Smartwatch könnte mit einem Titan- und einem Keramikgehäuse auf den Markt kommen. (Apple Watch, Mobil)
Einige in der Beta 6 von WatchOS 5 aufgetauchte Animationen verraten etwas über die Apple Watch Series 5. Die noch für dieses Jahr erwartete Smartwatch könnte mit einem Titan- und einem Keramikgehäuse auf den Markt kommen. (Apple Watch, Mobil)
After sending hundreds of fruitless cease-and-desist notices to ‘pirate’ IPTV provider Easybox IPTV, DISH Networks has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the service in the United States. DISH states that the defendants, which offer both pre-configured devices and separate channel subscriptions, are acting with willful, malicious intent while showing indifference to the rights of the broadcaster.
As the use of unlicensed IPTV services continues to gain popularity with consumers around the world, content owners and broadcasters are faced with a growing illicit market to disrupt.
As a result, copyright infringement and similar lawsuits against ‘pirate’ IPTV providers are definitely on the rise, with US-based broadcaster DISH Network at the forefront.
This week, DISH filed another lawsuit in the United States, this time targeting ‘pirate’ IPTV provider Easybox IPTV. This ‘company’ (the term is used loosely, given the unknown structure of the operation) appears not dissimilar to several others previously targeted by the broadcaster.
The model adopted by Easybox suggests the outfit primarily targets less experienced IPTV users, something that’s supported by the operation offering ready-configured (aka ‘fully-loaded’) devices as well as add-on subscription packages.
Part of the Easybox IPTV offering
The DISH lawsuit, filed in a Texas federal court, list DOES 1-5 individually and collectively doing business as Easybox IPTV. DISH doesn’t appear to know the identities of the people it’s suing but has concluded they may be from China.
The broadcaster says that historical WHOIS records for the service’s domain name suggest a China base while delivery time for devices sent to China is much quicker than those sent to the United States.
At issue are DISH’s ‘protected channels’, i.e those it supplies as a result of licensing agreements obtained from various TV networks. These allow the company to “distribute and publicly perform” in the United States “by means including satellite, OTT, Internet protocol television (‘IPTV’), and Internet.”
Easybox IPTV’s service, which offers “more than 1,000 channels” to its subscribers, includes the ‘protected channels’, a breach of the broadcaster’s rights, according to DISH.
“Defendants use their Easybox Service to transmit the Protected Channels over the Internet to Service Users soon after the original authorized transmission,” the complaint reads.
“Defendants capture live broadcast signals of the Protected Channels, transcode these signals into a format useful for streaming over the Internet, transfer the transcoded content to one or more servers provided, controlled, and maintained by Defendants, and then transmit the Protected Channels to Service Users through OTT delivery.”
An interesting element to the case are the efforts expended by DISH, in advance of this lawsuit, in order to get Easybox to cease-and-desist its activities. According to the broadcaster, since January 27, 2016, DISH and its partners sent at least 116 infringement notices, all of which were ignored.
“Instead [of responding], Defendants prevented DISH’s counsel from viewing Easybox.tv by blocking their Internet Protocol (‘IP’) addresses,” the complaint adds.
On top of the direct notices, from February 8, 2016, more than 170 additional complaints were sent to CDNs associated with the Easybox service. DISH believes at least some of these were forwarded to the IPTV provider since it later countered by switching to different CDN providers.
All that considered, DISH is demanding a permanent injunction against Easybox (and anyone acting in concert with it) preventing it from “transmitting, streaming, distributing, or publicly performing in the United States, with any Easybox set-top box, smart IPTV subscription, subscription renewal, or any other device, application, service, or process, any of the Protected Channels or any of the programming that comprises any of the Protected Channels.”
DISH also seeks a ban on the distribution, sale, promotion or advertising of Easybox services and/or devices, including any inducement for others to carry out the same.
In addition, it requests statutory damages for 67 or more registered works at the rate of $150,000 each (more than $10 million) plus any profits generated by Easybox due to the infringement of non-registered works.
The DISH complaint against Easybox can be downloaded here (pdf)
Bisher konnten Urheber die Einnahmen von Youtubern komplett an sich ziehen, auch wenn diese nur ganz kurze Teile der eigenen Werke übernahmen. Das soll künftig auf Youtube nicht mehr möglich sein. (Youtube, Urheberrecht)
Bisher konnten Urheber die Einnahmen von Youtubern komplett an sich ziehen, auch wenn diese nur ganz kurze Teile der eigenen Werke übernahmen. Das soll künftig auf Youtube nicht mehr möglich sein. (Youtube, Urheberrecht)
Bisher konnten Urheber die Einnahmen von Youtubern komplett an sich ziehen, auch wenn diese nur ganz kurze Teile der eigenen Werke übernahmen. Das soll künftig auf Youtube nicht mehr möglich sein. (Youtube, Urheberrecht)
Bisher konnten Urheber die Einnahmen von Youtubern komplett an sich ziehen, auch wenn diese nur ganz kurze Teile der eigenen Werke übernahmen. Das soll künftig auf Youtube nicht mehr möglich sein. (Youtube, Urheberrecht)
Amazon's biggest asset can also be a headache for its customers. The so-called "everything store" really does sell almost any item consumers might want, but it's often cumbersome and time-consuming to sort through them all. To avoid "choice overload," the retail giant has come up with certain signals designed to help people distinguish high-quality products from the rest. They include star ratings and product reviews, as well as "Amazon's Choice," a mysterious badge bestowed on some individual items, which has recently become the subject of scrutiny from lawmakers. Now, Amazon is testing a new signifier, called "Top Brand." But no one seems to know what, exactly, a "Top Brand" is, and Amazon won't say.
Amazon has long given customers the ability to search by "Top Brands," but the products previously weren't distinguished by a special badge in search results. Now, if you search for "swimming goggles," for instance, Amazon may return several pairs from Speedo whose photos bear a "Top Brand" badge. Here's the weird part: the longstanding "Top Brands" search filter isn't quite the same thing as the newer "Top Brand" badge. Here's an example: if you look up "women's belts" on Amazon and filter for "Top Brands," you may notice that not all of the results actually receive the Top Brand badge. How can a company be a Top Brand in one sense but not in another?
(credit: Louise Matsakis via Amazon)
Amazon says the discrepancy exists because the Top Brand badge is only a feature within Amazon Fashion, the part of its website dedicated to clothes, accessories, and luggage, while the Top Brands search filter is available across the entire marketplace. It makes sense for Amazon to try out this new badge feature specifically for fashion, since consumers are generally brand-conscious when shopping for things like handbags and shoes. But since not all women's belts are within the fashion category, they're not eligible for the Top Brand badge, even though Amazon might consider them to be Top Brands generally. Confusing, right?
A top climate scientist explains the masochism behind creating the IPCC climate reports.
Enlarge/ A view of the building of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), hosting the 50th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 8, 2019 in Geneva. (credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
In my day job, I am a scientist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland studying things such as how agriculture contributes to climate change and what we can do about it. Recently, though, I found myself in Geneva, to take part in my fourth “adoption plenary” for a report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report in question was the recent Special Report on Climate Change and Land, and I was one of its 15 convening lead authors, responsible along with two others for a 300-page chapter on links between desertification, land degradation, food security and climate change. The adoption plenary is the process by which the 195 governments who are part of the IPCC reach consensus on the wording of a much shorter (40 or so page) “Summary for Policymakers” (SPM) of an entire IPCC report, and thereby adopt its findings.
The process of approval is gruelling for all concerned: it’s allocated five days, with an additional reserve day allocated which is often used. During this period, every word of the policymakers’ summary has to be agreed and approved, line-by-line, with delegates from all governments in the room.
Der Einrichtungskonzern Ikea will mit einem eigenen Geschäftsbereich seine Smart-Home-Produkte voranbringen. Das Unternehmen will damit mehr bieten als nur gewöhnliche Möbel. (Ikea, Smart Home)
Der Einrichtungskonzern Ikea will mit einem eigenen Geschäftsbereich seine Smart-Home-Produkte voranbringen. Das Unternehmen will damit mehr bieten als nur gewöhnliche Möbel. (Ikea, Smart Home)
Die modulare Smartwatch Blocks wird nicht erscheinen. Vier Jahre nach erfolgreicher Durchführung einer Kickstarter-Kampagne ist dem dahinterstehenden Unternehmen das Geld ausgegangen. (Smartwatch, Mobil) 
Fotos von Freunden und der Familie, Anspielungen auf Hobbys und teaminterne Scherze: Jason Hickey von Insomniac Games hat erzählt, wie er und sein Team in Marvel's Spider-Man persönliche und politische Inhalte versteckt hätten. (
Die erste Straße Frankreichs, die Strom aus Sonnenlicht gewinnen sollte, hat die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt. Sie hat nicht nur viel weniger Strom als erwartet erzeugt, sie fällt auch auseinander. (
Einige in der Beta 6 von WatchOS 5 aufgetauchte Animationen verraten etwas über die Apple Watch Series 5. Die noch für dieses Jahr erwartete Smartwatch könnte mit einem Titan- und einem Keramikgehäuse auf den Markt kommen. (
Bisher konnten Urheber die Einnahmen von Youtubern komplett an sich ziehen, auch wenn diese nur ganz kurze Teile der eigenen Werke übernahmen. Das soll künftig auf Youtube nicht mehr möglich sein. (
Der Einrichtungskonzern Ikea will mit einem eigenen Geschäftsbereich seine Smart-Home-Produkte voranbringen. Das Unternehmen will damit mehr bieten als nur gewöhnliche Möbel. (
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