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Mangels Thunderbolt 3 haben Surface-Käufer wenig Alternativen zu den hochpreisigen Docks. (Surface, Microsoft)
Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs als Auftakt für eine Globale Gesundheit?
Die Ausgabe neuer Aktien soll das Kapital des Halbleiterfertigers weiter steigern, der Kurs hatte sich innerhalb eines Jahres verdoppelt. (Halbleiterfertigung, TSMC)
Die Ausgabe neuer Aktien soll das Kapital des Halbleiterfertigers weiter steigern, der Kurs hatte sich innerhalb eines Jahres verdoppelt. (Halbleiterfertigung, TSMC) New research from the Netherlands shows that the local Pirate Bay blockade is having an effect, with roughly 80% of survey respondents staying away from the site. This success rate is in part due to dynamic blocks, which include over 181 domains at the moment, including dark web portals. Whether the former Pirate Bay users have stopped torrenting is another question.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, torrent sites and more. We also help you to find the best anonymous VPN.
Following court orders and site blocking regimes worldwide, The Pirate Bay is blocked in dozens of countries.
The effectiveness of these measures is often a topic of debate.
Copyright holders frequently argue that blocking works, showing that traffic to targeted sites is plunging. However, opponents argue that these blocks are easily circumvented, noting that people find workarounds or other pirate sources.
For example, if thepiratebay.org doesn’t work, they can use a VPN to access the site, or pick one of the many Pirate Bay proxies that are freely available.
In response to this, so-called ‘dynamic’ blocking orders have become more common. These are blocking orders that allow rightsholders to continuously update the blocklist by adding new URLs and removing ones that no longer need to be blocked.
This is also the case in the Netherlands, where the court ordered ISPs to block the popular torrent site. Although this decision is not final yet, the measures have proven to be very effective according to local anti-piracy group BREIN.
BREIN director Tim Kuik informed TorrentFreak this week that 181 separate Pirate Bay domains are currently blocked. Most of these are not operated by The Pirate Bay team, but by third parties.
The anti-piracy group hasn’t published the list, but Dutch ISP Xs4all maintains a list of IP-addresses and domains that have been added and removed over the years. This list is not always 100% up-to-date but shows the wide range of domains that are targeted.
This includes mostly proxy sites, but also Pirate Bay-linked subdomains from Onion.link, which is a service that provides access to sites on the Dark Web outside the Tor network.
The big question is whether these blocking efforts are effective. While they are certainly not perfect, Kuik believes that blockades work.
In a survey, which research organization Kantar prepared for BREIN late last year, nearly 20,000 Dutch respondents were asked about their Pirate Bay browsing habits. It revealed that 80% stopped using the site after the blockades were implemented.
That’s indeed a big number and much more telling than previous reports in other countries which merely showed that visits to the blocked domains dropped.
However, questions remain as well. For example, did these people stop pirating entirely, or did they simply move to Pirate Bay alternatives?
Academic research shows that the latter is certainly an option. In a series of studies on the effect of UK court orders, researcher Brett Danaher and his colleagues found that blocking a single website has little effect, as people simply move to other sites that are still available.
Only when other websites were blocked as well do piracy rates start to drop while legal consumption increases.
In the Netherlands, the blocking efforts are currently limited to just one site. This would suggest that they are not as effective at all. At least not in the broader piracy ecosystem.
Then again, that’s not a great legal argument to stop blocking. On the contrary, BREIN will likely use the aforementioned research to request more site blockades, if the Pirate Bay blocks are upheld in court.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, torrent sites and more. We also help you to find the best anonymous VPN.
Residents rebelled over plans to collect and use their data, among other things.
Enlarge / Sidewalk Labs concept for the scuppered lakefront development in Toronto. (credit: Sidewalk Labs)
When Google sibling Sidewalk Labs announced in 2017 a $50 million investment into a project to redevelop a portion of Toronto’s waterfront, it seemed almost too good to be true. Someday soon, Sidewalk Labs promised, Torontonians would live and work in a 12-acre former industrial site in skyscrapers made from timber—a cheaper and more sustainable building material. Streets paved with a new sort of light-up paver would let the development change its design in seconds, able to play host to families on foot and toself-driving cars. Trash would travel through underground chutes. Sidewalks would heat themselves. Forty percent of the thousands of planned apartments would be set aside for low- and middle-income families. And the Google sister company founded to digitize and techify urban planning would collect data on all of it, in a quest to perfect city living.
Thursday, the dream died. In a Medium post, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff said the company would no longer pursue the development. Doctoroff, a former New York City deputy mayor, pointed a finger at the Covid-19 pandemic. “As unprecedented economic uncertainty has set in around the world and in the Toronto real estate market, it has become too difficult to make the … project financially viable without sacrificing core parts of the plan,” he wrote.
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Die günstigen Einsteigermodelle sind bei Ryzen-APU und DDR4-Speicher limitiert. (Thinkpad, AMD)
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US violated Whistleblower Protection Act, according to preliminary finding.
Enlarge / Rick Bright, head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, listens during a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Thursday, March 8, 2018. In the background is Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
The Trump administration is facing pressure from a federal watchdog agency to reinstate the whistleblower who President Trump claimed is "a disgruntled employee who's trying to help the Democrats win an election."
Rick Bright, an immunology expert who led the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) until he says he was forced out of his position, reportedly got good news from the US Office of Special Counsel, which is investigating his whistleblower complaint.
"A federal investigative office has found 'reasonable grounds to believe' that the Trump administration was retaliating against a whistleblower, Dr. Rick Bright, when he was ousted from a government research agency combating the coronavirus—and said he should be reinstated for 45 days while it investigates, his lawyers said Friday," The New York Times wrote.
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Rasant zunehmender Hunger und massenhafte Lebensmittelvernichtung – in der gegenwärtigen Krise tritt die mörderische Irrationalität der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise offen zutage
Mangels Thunderbolt 3 haben Surface-Käufer wenig Alternativen zu den hochpreisigen Docks. (
Die günstigen Einsteigermodelle sind bei Ryzen-APU und DDR4-Speicher limitiert. (
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