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In September hardware hacker bunnie Huang unveiled a new open mobile hardware device called Precursor. Now it’s up for pre-order through a crowdfunding campaign at Crowd Supply. The early bird $450 rewards are sold out, but you can reserve one f…
In September hardware hacker bunnie Huang unveiled a new open mobile hardware device called Precursor. Now it’s up for pre-order through a crowdfunding campaign at Crowd Supply. The early bird $450 rewards are sold out, but you can reserve one for a pledge of $512 or more and if everything goes according to plan, a […]
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As cases spike, Trump admin continues to belittle pandemic, public health experts.
Enlarge / ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - OCTOBER 31: A staff member works at a polling station during early voting for the US Presidential election on October 31, 2020 in Arlington, United States. (credit: Getty | Chen Mengtong)
We're 10 months into the pandemic and the outlook for the United States is worse than ever. Coronavirus cases are spiking to unseen levels across the country, with a record of nearly over 97,000 cases reported on Friday alone. As hospitals in dozens of states begin filling, health experts look wearily to the weeks ahead. Cold weather and a series of holidays will undoubtedly bring people indoors and together, showering gasoline on the current inferno of disease transmission.
Yet despite the grim reality, President Donald Trump and his administration have spent the last days before the presidential election not addressing the dire crisis but instead downplaying the tragedy and attacking public health experts and frontline workers. Trump’s coronavirus advisor, Scott Atlas, even appeared on a Russian propaganda television show to defend the administration’s response, in which he echoed his previous false and misleading claims about the pandemic.
On Friday, Trump himself falsely claimed doctors are inflating the number of coronavirus deaths for money. In response, the president of the American Medical Association, Susan Bailey, called Trump’s false statement “malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided.”
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Intel’s integrated graphics technology has gotten a lot better in recent years, with the company’s 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake processors offering graphics performance that’s close to what you’d get from an entry-level NVIDIA dis…
Intel’s integrated graphics technology has gotten a lot better in recent years, with the company’s 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake processors offering graphics performance that’s close to what you’d get from an entry-level NVIDIA discrete GPU. But Intel isn’t stopping with integrated graphics – this summer the company announced plans to enter the discrete graphics space […]
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“It feels like it’s from the future… I am amazed at how well it works.”
SpaceX Starlink beta users are starting to share their experiences, confirming that the satellite service can provide fast broadband speeds and low latencies in remote areas. A beta tester who goes by the Reddit username Wandering-coder brought his new Starlink equipment and a portable power supply to a national forest in Idaho, where he connected to the Internet with 120Mbps download speeds.
Starlink "works beautifully," he wrote yesterday. "I did a real-time video call and some tests. My power supply is max 300w, and the drain for the whole system while active was around 116w." Starlink pulled that off in a place where Wandering-coder couldn't get any cellular service from Google Fi, which relies on the T-Mobile and US Cellular networks. "There is no cell here with any carrier," he wrote.
Wandering-coder used Starlink connectivity in the forest to make that post on Reddit and to upload a series of pictures to Imgur. Wandering-coder told Ars that he uses Starlink at home in North Idaho and that he conducted his test at the Hayden Creek Shooting Range in the Idaho panhandle's Coeur d'Alene National Forest.
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Several major record labels recently cited the USTR’s notorious markets list as evidence in their ongoing legal battle with YouTube-rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. This mention wasn’t well-received by the defense team, which counters that this “proof” is misleading because the USTR list itself doesn’t constitute a legal finding and is based on input from the RIAA.
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RIAA’s takedown request, targeting the open source stream-ripper software youtube-dl, generated a lot of media interest. However, it’s just one of the many YouTube-ripping disputes.
Over the past two years, for example, the operator of FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com has been fighting several record labels in US courts.
For now, this battle has been limited to jurisdiction questions. The operator of the site, Tofig Kurbanov, is from Russia and before the court can consider any copyright infringement claims, it has to decide whether it has jurisdiction.
After a district court ruling in Kurbanov’s favor and an appeals court judgment that reversed it, the Supreme Court was recently asked to consider the case. This means that a final verdict could be years away.
The record labels are not happy with this, especially because the site operator managed to put the district court case on hold in the meantime. This is why they asked the court to reconsider its ‘stay’ order and continue the proceedings.
“The stay order should stay discovery only to the extent necessary to allow the Court to resolve the jurisdictional issue as required by the Fourth Circuit on remand,” the record labels write, noting that the court’s decision was an “error of law”.
The stream ripper’s legal team disagreed and responded with a motion of its own, opposing the label’s arguments.
“This Court was well within its rights to issue a stay of proceedings pending the resolution of Mr. Kurbanov’s cert petition. This Court’s order was not an ‘error of law’ at all,” they counter.
While this is mostly a battle over non-copyright issues, the discussion over potential injuries to the record labels raised our interest. Specifically, the mentions of the United States Trade Representative’s Notorious Markets report.
This annual list is an overview of alleged pirate sites that are reported to the US Government by copyright holders, including the RIAA, which represents the major record labels. The same labels are now using this report as evidence.
“[A]s the popularity of Defendant’s unlawful sites has grown, they have caught the attention of the United States government,” the music companies write.
“[I]n its annual report on Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy, the U.S. Trade Representative named Defendant’s FLVTO website as ‘continu[ing] to threaten legitimate streaming audio and video services’ and copyright owners. Defendant’s piracy causes Plaintiffs substantial harm.”
It is not unique for copyright holders to bring up the USTR report, which is often used for lobbying purposes. However, Kurbanov’s legal team notes that ‘evidence’ in this manner is misleading.
“This is – to put it mildly – highly misleading. As Plaintiffs are well-aware, the process by which entities get named in the government’s report is by ‘nomination,’ primarily from self-interested industry groups.”
The defense lawyers don’t dispute that FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com were in the report. However, they inform the court that they were listed because copyright holders called them out.
And as the USTR report explicitly states, being listed does not constitute a legal finding of a violation, including copyright infringement.
“What Plaintiffs have not told this Court is that the Websites at issue here were ‘nominated’ for inclusion in the report by Plaintiffs’ own lobbying arm,” Kusbanov’s team informs the court.
“In other words, Plaintiffs themselves (through their lobbying arm), managed to get the Websites included in the government report and now point to the same report as ‘proof’ that the Websites ‘have caught the attention of the United States Government’.”
The back and forth over the USTR report is worth highlighting but, for the matter at hand, it’s only a minor issue. The court didn’t refer back to it in its final decision either.
After reading the arguments from both sides, the Federal Court in Virginia issued a one-page order rejecting the record labels’ request, simply stating that the previous order to stay the case was correctly decided.
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A copy of the record labels’ request for reconsideration is available here (pdf), Kurbanov’s response here (pdf), and a copy of the final order from US District Court Judge Claude Hilton here (pdf)
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The Orange Pi Zero 2 is a tiny single-board-computer that measures just 2.4″ x 2.1″ and features sized Ethernet, USB, and HDMI ports, among other things. First announced over a year ago, the original Orange Pi Zero 2 was never available to…
The Orange Pi Zero 2 is a tiny single-board-computer that measures just 2.4″ x 2.1″ and features sized Ethernet, USB, and HDMI ports, among other things. First announced over a year ago, the original Orange Pi Zero 2 was never available to purchase. But now you can buy a new version with upgraded specs. The […]
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Purism’s Librem Mini is a small desktop computer that ships with the Linux-based PureOS operating system pre-installed. When the computer began shipping earlier this year, it was powered by an Intel Core i7-8565U Whiskey Lake processor. Now Puri…
Purism’s Librem Mini is a small desktop computer that ships with the Linux-based PureOS operating system pre-installed. When the computer began shipping earlier this year, it was powered by an Intel Core i7-8565U Whiskey Lake processor. Now Purism has introduced the Librem Mini version 2 which has an Intel Core i7-10501U Comet Lake processor instead. It’s […]
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Amazon is running a sale on Samsung and PNY storage products, while Newegg, Best Buy, and B&H have some pretty good deals on storage as well. Meanwhile Costco is offering the Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II true wireless headphones for $170, which …
Amazon is running a sale on Samsung and PNY storage products, while Newegg, Best Buy, and B&H have some pretty good deals on storage as well. Meanwhile Costco is offering the Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II true wireless headphones for $170, which is the lowest price I’ve seen… but it’s a members-only deal. Bose is […]
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The company will almost definitely announce its first Apple Silicon Macs.
Enlarge / The splash image for Apple's November 10, 2020 "One More Thing" event.
Apple sent out notice today to members of the press that it will hold yet another livestreamed product unveiling event this year—this time on November 10 at 1pm Eastern time. This will be the company's third such event since September.
As always, Apple attached a tagline to the event: "one more thing." That's a callback to former CEO Steve Jobs' technique of saving a bombshell announcement for the end of the event and preceding it with a slide (or simply a statement) declaring "one more thing."
That "one more thing" is almost certain to be the first of a wave of Apple Silicon-based Macs. The company announced at its developer conference back in June that it would reveal the first such product by the end of the year, after detailing its plans to gradually move Macs from Intel CPUs to its own custom-designed, ARM-based ones over the course of several years.
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