Month: October 2019

Vodafone hat einen Stellenabbau bei Unitymedia angekündigt. Laut einem Experten könnte rund ein Drittel der Arbeitsplätze wegfallen. (Wirtschaft, Vodafone)

Während Porsche bei seinem ersten Elektroauto auf 800 Volt setzt, hat Volabo einen anderen Ansatz: Das Antriebssystem der Münchener Firma nutzt nur 48 Volt. Das macht es sicherer. Durch seine neuartige Bauart soll es auch günstiger zu produzieren sein. Es hat aber einen offensichtlichen Nachteil. Ein Bericht von Werner Pluta (Elektromobilität, Technologie)

Es sollte ein ganz besonderes Elektroauto werden. Doch der britische Unternehmer James Dyson hat das Projekt beendet, weil es nicht wirtschaftlich ist. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Eigentlich sollte sein Vertrag noch bis 2021 laufen, aber der SAP-CEOBill McDermot tritt jetzt schon von seinem Posten zurück. Ihm folgen gleich zwei Co-Chefs, die seine Aufgaben übernehmen werden - beides Veteranen im Unternehmen. (SAP, Cloud Computing)

Reaktionsschneller als Konsolen und PCs vor Ort: Google will bei Stadia schon bald Spielesteuerung mit "negativer Latenz" ermöglichen - unter anderem durch Voraussagen auf Basis von Maschinenlernen. (Stadia, Google)

Last year the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the anti-piracy alliance featuring several Hollywood studios, Amazon, Netflix, and other entertainment outfits, sued Florida-based SET Broadcast, LLC.

At the time, the company offered a popular software-based IPTV service and also sold pre-loaded set-top boxes. These were portrayed as legitimate, but ACE and its members disagreed.

“Defendants market and sell subscriptions to ‘Setvnow,’ a software application that Defendants urge their customers to use as a tool for the mass infringement of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted motion pictures and television shows,” their complaint read.

Soon after the lawsuit was filed the IPTV service went offline, leaving its 180,000 subscribers behind. But that didn’t mean the case against SET TV, its owner Jason Labossiere, and its employee Nelson Johnson was over. ACE pressed on, hoping to get a judgment in its favor.

Without any of the defendants putting up a defense, ACE booked its first victory a few months ago. The media companies submitted a motion for a default judgment against the company SET Broadcast, LLC, which the court granted.

In a ruling handed down last July, the court ordered SET TV to pay $7,650,000. This reflects the maximum statutory damages of $150,000 for each of the 51 works that were infringed by the defunct IPTV provider.

While ACE was pleased with the outcome, it wasn’t done yet. The default judgment only applied to the corporate entity, not the owner and its employee. With a new request, the anti-piracy alliance hopes to hold Labossiere and Johnson liable as well.

While the other two defendants initially responded to the court, they didn’t answer any recent requests. As such, ACE is now requesting a similar default judgment against Labossiere and Johnson, holding them jointly and severally for the payment of the $7,650,000 in damages

“Defendants Labossiere and Johnson are the individual Defendants who operated, managed, and ultimately profited from the willful, unlawful business of Set Broadcast. Settled law permits entry of default against willful infringers likeLabossiere and Johnson who refuse to participate in their own defense,” ACE writes.

“Plaintiffs therefore respectfully request that the Court enter default judgment against Labossiere and Johnson and hold them jointly and severally liable for the harm they inflicted upon Plaintiffs,” the Alliance adds.

In addition to the damages, ACE also requests a permanent injunction to prevent any future copyright infringement. Among other things, the defendants should be prohibited from operating the SetTV now service, as well as any website, system, software, or service that is substantially similar.

Without a response from the defendants, it’s likely that the court will grant the order.

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Der auf Linux-Rechner spezialisierte Hersteller System 76 verkauft zwei seiner Modelle mit Firmware auf Basis des freien Coreboot. Komplett frei ist die Firmware wegen der Intel-Hardware aber nicht. (coreboot, Firmware)

Auch Apple-CEO Tim Cook findet es richtig, dass die App Hkmap.live gesperrt wurde. Sie sei vielerlei für Straftaten missbraucht worden. US-Politiker und andere Parteien sehen die Entscheidung eher skeptisch. (Apple, iOS)

Das Aufladen von Elektroautos an einer öffentlichen Ladesäule kann bisweilen teuer sein. Golem.de hat mit dem Ladenetzbetreiber Allego über die Tücken bei der Ladeinfrastruktur und den schwierigen Kunden We Share gesprochen. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (Ladesäule, RFID)

Sony's next game console will be officially called the PS5, and will come out in time for the busy holiday shopping period next year.

Announcing these important details in a blog post, Sony also used the occasion to provide some more juicy details about next-gen console.

Missing from the first batch of information released in April was the state of the PS5's optical drive, and whether it would support 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray playback. The PS4, unlike it's direct rival the Xbox One, has never had support for 4K disc playback and many had wondered if Sony might carry the lack of support to its next console.

Fortunately for movie lovers, the PS5 will be supporting 4K UHD disc playback. And as a bonus, the enhanced capacity of 4K UHD discs (double that of standard Blu-ray) will give game developers more room to store their games.

That's not to say that the PS5 will not be moving towards game streaming and downloads, with Sony announcing a new feature where gamers can choose to download sections of a game at a time to save both bandwidth and storage space.

"Rather than treating games like a big block of data, we're allowing finer-grained access to the data," explained Mark Cerny, the PS5's lead architect.

Some new features are also coming to the updated DualShock controller, which while maintaining a look a feel that's similar to the current version of the controller, the DualShock 4, it will be adding haptic feedback support and adaptive triggers. Similar to the haptic home engine on the iPhone 7/8 phones, haptic feedback will replace the old vibration/rumble to provide a more customizable feel. The haptic based adaptive triggers, like the iPhone's haptic home "button", will also allow varying degrees of resistance. An improved built-in speaker will also help improve the gaming experience.

Most importantly perhaps, the new controller will be using a USB-C connector for charging, making it compatible with many existing chargers and charging ports. The new controller will be heavier than the DualShock 4, but lighter than the Xbox One X controller.

Ray-tracing support is something that both Sony and Microsoft's new consoles will be supporting, but Sony has confirmed that the support will be in hardware, not software, which will allow for more realistic lighting effects, but not at the expense of game performance.