Month: December 2019

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Nach der Unterstützung aller großen Browserhersteller und auch darüber hinaus wird Webassembly als offizieller Web-Standard anerkannt. Das hat das W3C entschieden. (Wasm, Browser)

Die Beteiligung an Rocket Internet hat für United Internet keinen großen strategischen Wert mehr. Die beiden lösen ihre Verbindungen im Wert von einer Viertelmilliarde Euro auf. (United Internet, Börse)

Er soll Campern das Leben und Kämpfern schwerer machen: Auf den Testservern haben die Macher von Pubg einen spannenden neuen Modus mit einer zweiten blauen Zone ausprobiert. In die öffentlichen Partien wird die Änderung aber nach aktuellem Stand nicht aufgenommen. (Playerunknown's Battlegrounds)

Der Verkauf von .org wirkt wie ein Verschwörungskrimi voller seltsamer Zufälle, Korruption und zwielichtiger Gestalten. Hinzu kommen Intransparenz und Widersprüche. Ein IMHO von Sebastian Grüner (Internet, DNS)

Das gegenseitige Misstrauen im Computerbereich schränkt den internationalen Handel stärker ein. Nun will China den Einsatz ausländischer Hard- und Software konkret reduzieren. (Spionage, Microsoft)

Every week, YouTube’s users upload millions of hours of videos. As with any user-generated content site, this also includes copyright-infringing content.

YouTube tackles this problem by processing takedown notices and using its Content-ID system to automatically remove allegedly infringing content.

However, according to copyright holders, this is not good enough. That includes Bollywood filmmaker Suneel Darshan, who filed a lawsuit against YouTube and Google India in 2011. Now, eight years later, a local court has ruled in his favor.

A few days ago, the District Court of Gurgaon held that the video platform did indeed infringe on the rights of the filmmaker. The Court issued an injunction preventing YouTube from violating his copyrights going forward and awarded roughly $700 in compensation.

The ‘damages’ amount is relatively low, especially after a prolonged legal battle, but Darshan says that he is planning to file a separate case to claim his full losses. A copy of the verdict has not been published online, as far as we know.

According to local media reports, YouTube and Google’s lawyers argued that the video platform was merely an intermediary, which should not be held directly liable.

In addition, the companies pointed out that they have a functional DMCA takedown policy that allows any copyright holder to request the removal in infringing content by pointing out specific URLs. This is something the filmmaker failed to do.

Darshan and his legal team held that YouTube and Google profited from the “unauthorized exploitation” of copyrighted works by sharing ad-revenue with the user who uploaded the content. As a result, the filmmaker lost part of his income.

The Court eventually sided with the copyright holder ruling that if Google and YouTube were aware of the content, they could have located the URLs to remove the infringing videos.

While the ruling is a setback for the video platform, the case is likely to be appealed. For now, however, the filmmaker is happy with the victory which he describes as an “encouraging judgment.”

That said, the journey towards this victory has been prolonged and difficult. YouTube and Google pushed back hard, Darshan says, quoted by the Free Press Journal.

“We faced many challenges while fighting this case. They made so many claims that it is not their jurisdiction and then they told me that I don’t hold the right to this content. So I had to prove my ownership, it is like parents proving that it is their child,” Darshan says.

YouTube hasn’t commented publicly on the case yet. The company is currently involved in several copyright infringement cases, including two that are with the European Court of Justice, which are expected to have a broad impact.

Similar to the Indian case, the top EU court will have to decide whether YouTube can be expected to go beyond responding to takedown notices that detail specific URLs.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

In Schleswig-Holstein ist auf der A1 erstmals ein Lkw gefahren, der Fahrstrom von einer Oberleitung bezogen hat. Damit ist das Pilotprojekt für Elektromobilität startklar. Der Regelbetrieb startet Anfang kommenden Jahres. (Elektromobilität, Technologie)

Kleine Updates und Belohnungskarten gibt es weiterhin, aber sehr viel mehr Arbeit will Bethesda nicht in The Elder Scrolls Legends investieren. In der Community konnte sich der Free-to-Play-Titel nie richtig durchsetzen. (The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda)

Es häufen sich die Vorfälle, in denen sich Nutzer über sich ausdehnende Akkus in ihren Surface Books beschweren. Diese sorgen nicht nur für verbogene Displays, sondern sind auch gefährlich. Außerhalb der Garantie kostet der Ersatz allerdings viel Geld. (Surface Book, Microsoft)