Month: October 2019

Der Core i9-9900KS tritt mit 5 GHz auf allen acht CPU-Kernen an, jedoch nur mit begrenzter Verfügbarkeit und wenig Garantie. Der Aufpreis zum 9900K ist gering, die Leistung(saufnahme) steigt allerdings deutlich. Ein Test von Marc Sauter (Intel Coffee Lake, Prozessor)

On December 9, 2014, the file-sharing world was in turmoil.

Swedish police raided the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof datacenter in Stockholm, and confiscated dozens of servers.

The raid caused downtime at many popular torrent sites including The Pirate Bay. While a TPB insider later denied that its servers were taken, it remained offline for nearly two months.

After the raid, it became clear that The Pirate Bay was indeed the main reason for the enforcement effort. Similar to the earlier raid in 2005, a criminal investigation was launched to hold the operators responsible and keep the site offline.

However, where the first enforcement action resulted in several criminal convictions, the most recent investigation had limited success.

Last week we reported that the police ended the investigation into Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij, who was seen as a prime suspect. Today, we can report that the entire criminal investigation is now closed.

While the prosecution gathered a substantial amount of evidence, the case can’t continue, simply because time ran out.

“The investigation was closed because the statute of limitations expired,” Anna Ginner, Prosecutor at the National Intellectual Property Crime Unit tells us.

There was enough evidence to pursue a case against a suspect, which we believe is Fredrik Neij. However, the prosecution was unable to reach this person for “final serving,” a process where defendants can review the evidence, which is mandatory in Sweden.

“The investigation was finished. However, we did not manage to contact the suspect to give him the possibility to review the investigation on final serving,” Ginner notes.

Although there are no criminal convictions, the police and prosecution did book some results, Ginner says. The investigation led to a legal battle over the thepiratebay.se domain name, which was registered to Neij. This case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which forfeited the domain to the Swedish state last year.

The prosecution may have hoped for more but the lack of a conviction doesn’t come as a complete surprise. In 2017, the then leading prosecutor Henrik Rasmusson already warned that time was running out and that oral evidence was weakening.

Due to secrecy provisions, the prosecution can’t comment on whether The Pirate Bay remains a topic of interest, but it’s clear that the investigation following the 2014 raid is now closed.

Last week Neij told us that he is pleased that the case was dropped.

“Now that the investigation is closed, I’m looking forward to being compensated for them unnecessarily holding all my computer equipment for four years and ten months,” he said.

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Die Bundesregierung will nicht jedes Funkloch in Deutschland schließen. Aber für bis zu 5.000 unrentable weiße Flecken will der Bund finanzielle Mittel zum Mobilfunkausbau bereitstellen. (Mobilfunk, Internet)

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Die neue Previewversion von Microsofts Powertoys beinhaltet ein praktisches Tool: Mit Powerrename können Anwender viele ausgewählte Dateien gleichzeitig umbenennen. Das Programm ist mit Skriptsprachen und regulären Ausdrücken kompatibel und kostenlos für Windows 10 installierbar. (Windows 10, Javascript)

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Apple hat jüngst nicht nur seine aktuelle iPhone-11-Serie sowie auch einige ältere Geräte mit Updates versorgt, sondern auch seine Smartwatches: WatchOS 6.1 bringt neben der Unterstützung für die neuen Airpods Pro auch die aktuelle WatchOS-Version auf ältere Apple Watches. (Apple Watch, Apple)

Es ist sehr erfrischend, dass wir in Call of Duty Modern Warfare weder Wände hochklettern noch Jetpacks nutzen. Waffen klingen nicht mehr wie Spielzeuge und Kämpfe sind taktischer. Was uns nicht gefällt: eine Kampagne mit Skandalszenen, null Charakterentwicklung und das Kopieren von Battlefield. Ein Test von Oliver Nickel und Marc Sauter (Call of Duty, Spieletest)

In 1.400 Fällen soll der Trojaner-Hersteller NSO eine Sicherheitslücke in Whatsapp für die Installation der Spyware Pegasus genutzt haben. Unter den Opfern sind Menschenrechtsaktivisten und Journalisten. Der Trojaner-Hersteller muss sich nun vor Gericht verantworten. (Whatsapp, Instant Messenger)