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Investigation finds suspicious behavior by 9 of top 10 UK contributors on feedback.
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Amazon is investigating the most prolific reviewers on its UK website after a Financial Times investigation found evidence that they were profiting from posting thousands of five-star ratings.
Justin Fryer, the number one-ranked reviewer on Amazon.co.uk, reviewed £15,000 worth of products in August alone, from smartphones to electric scooters to gym equipment, giving his five-star approval on average once every four hours.
Overwhelmingly, those products were from little-known Chinese brands, who often offer to send reviewers products for free in return for positive posts. Mr. Fryer then appears to have sold many of the goods on eBay, making nearly £20,000 since June.
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Ein offizielles Update für Doom und Doom 2 bringt Neuerungen wie ein Breitbildformat und Bewegungssteuerung. (Doom, Steam)
More than a week has passed since a US Government enforcement action hit the piracy scene hard. The release group SPARKS was the main target but, directly and indirectly, many other pirate groups were affected as well. Now that the dust is settling, we take a look at how the actions impacted the flow of new releases.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Every day, millions of people download or stream pirated content including movies, TV-shows, games, MP3s, and books.
Many of these files originate from a small and tightly organized ‘community’ commonly known as The Scene, which is made up of dozens of smaller ‘release groups.’
These groups tend to operate in the shadows with little or no public profile. At least, that’s what the unwritten rules dictate. That’s for good reason as the people involved risk high prison sentences when caught.
It’s very rare for Scene group members to get busted but last week the US Government claimed a major victory. With help from international law enforcement partners, several raids and arrests were carried out, with the SPARKS group at the center of it all.
The first reports on a possible law enforcement action trickled in last Tuesday and a day later the US Department of Justice confirmed that three people had been indicted. Based on the ‘copyright infringement conspiracy’ charges, all face long sentences.
The main defendants were hit the hardest but the effects of last week’s actions are much broader. As mentioned earlier, dozens of topsites are believed to be taken down in the raids and many more halted their operations as a precaution.
In piracy circles, people regularly bring up the “hydra,” a mythical multi-headed creature that can easily regenerate when a head is chopped off. However, last week’s busts are also reminiscent of another Greek mythology: Achilles’ heel.
As soon as the first rumors about the raids started spreading on Tuesday, the number of Scene releases started to drop. A day later, when confirmation came in, it became even quieter.
With data provided by Predb.org we take a closer look at these dropoffs, showing that some categories are affected more than others.
Before delving into detailed groups, it’s worth pointing out the overall impact, which can be summarized in two numbers. On Wednesday, August 19, there were 1944 new releases. A week later, a day after the first raids, this number was down to 168 releases.
The drop in new releases happened across all categories. Below is a line graph showing the most popular “TV-X64” category where the date of the raids is clearly visible.
In the days after the raids, there were just a few dozen new releases at most compared to many hundreds a week earlier. A similar trend can be observed in other categories, such as Anime, X264 (movies), and XXX, shown below.
There are clearly fewer releases after the raids, but there are still some. The same can’t be said for other categories such as Games and Ebooks, where nothing new came out in the days after the raids.
Looking more closely at individual release groups in TV and movie categories shows that some have ‘disappeared’ completely. For example, the group TRUMP previously released dozens of new shows a week. After the raids, however, nothing new appeared.
Time will tell if things will eventually recover or if the effects are lasting.
With that in mind, we’ll close with the MP3 category, where signs of recovery are visible. After an initial drop, a new two-week record of over 800 releases was set the Sunday after the raid, suggesting that groups were catching up.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Im Jahr 2017 hatte Telefónica nicht allen Kunden automatisch freies EU-Roaming gegeben. Das holt den Anbieter jetzt ein. (Roaming, Verbraucherschutz)
Im Jahr 2017 hatte Telefónica nicht allen Kunden automatisch freies EU-Roaming gegeben. Das holt den Anbieter jetzt ein. (Roaming, Verbraucherschutz) It sounds like the OnePlus 8T won’t be a huge upgrade.
OnePlus' "oneplus_8t" render. The rest of the images in this gallery will be the old OnePlus 8 Pro, since they're nearly identical. [credit: OnePlus ]
If you're OnePlus, what do you do to follow the fantastic OnePlus 8 Pro released earlier this year? If the latest rumors from Android Central are to be believed, the answer is apparently "not much." The site has specs for the upcoming OnePlus 8T, and you've got to look very closely to see any difference between it and the OnePlus 8 Pro.
Android Central lists the OnePlus 8T with a 120Hz OLED panel, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. The site says the back will have four cameras, a 48MP main camera, 16MP wide-angle, 5MP macro, and a 2MP depth lens. These are supposed to be the OnePlus 8T specs, but they also all describe the existing OnePlus 8 Pro. The only real differences in the new model are the screen size—which, at 6.55 inches, is a bit smaller than the 6.78-inch 8 Pro—the slightly upgraded Snapdragon 865+ SoC, and a better 48MP sensor than the cheaper OnePlus 8 (which had a worse sensor than the OnePlus 8 Pro).
The front design looks pretty much identical to the OnePlus 8 Pro, too. OnePlus included a "oneplus_8t" image in the company's latest release of the Android 11 beta, and it looks just like the 8 Pro, with thin bezels and a single hole-punch camera in the top-left. Smartphones all kind of look the same nowadays, but other options would have been a dual front-camera setup in the OnePlus Nord or a fancy new under-display camera.
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Die beiden neuen Modelle fahren 70 km/h und 100 km/h schnell. (Elektromobilität, Technologie)
Was am 4. September 2020 neben den großen Meldungen sonst noch passiert ist, in aller Kürze. (Kurznews, Apple)
The Raspberry Pi line of tiny computers have made a big splash in recent years. For as little as $35 you can get a fully functional computer capable of running a variety of (mostly Linux-based) operating systems. Some models are even cheaper. A bunch …
The Raspberry Pi line of tiny computers have made a big splash in recent years. For as little as $35 you can get a fully functional computer capable of running a variety of (mostly Linux-based) operating systems. Some models are even cheaper. A bunch of competitors have entered the space, but like the Raspberry Pi, […]
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Die Bundesregierung verschiebt die Pflicht, bei Überschuldung Insolvenz anzumelden, weiter in die Zukunft
Ein offizielles Update für Doom und Doom 2 bringt Neuerungen wie ein Breitbildformat und Bewegungssteuerung. (
Die beiden neuen Modelle fahren 70 km/h und 100 km/h schnell. (
Was am 4. September 2020 neben den großen Meldungen sonst noch passiert ist, in aller Kürze. (
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