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Anti-piracy coalition ACE is continuing its crackdown on pirate sites. Represented by the MPA, the group obtained a DMCA subpoena that requires the .to domain registry to hand over personal details relating to the operators of Cinecalidad, Myflixer, Streamplay, and several others. The question remains, how effective is this strategy?
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Over the past year, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) added a new tool to its anti-piracy toolbox.
The coalition, which represents prominent members including major Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and other entertainment giants, started using DMCA subpoenas to unmask pirate site operators.
These subpoenas are relatively easy to obtain. They are not reviewed by a judge but are signed off by a court clerk. This makes it a pretty straightforward process that’s not very costly either.
ACE’s enforcement campaign is led by the MPA and their subpoenas are mostly targeted at two service providers. The first is CDN provider Cloudflare, and the second is Tonic Domains Corp, which is the registry for .to domain names.
A few days ago the MPA obtained a new subpoena from a California federal court, asking the domain registry to share information relating to the domains 1377x.to, cinecalidad.to, f2movies.to, myflixer.to, onionplay.to, streamplay.to, tinyzonetv.to, upstream.to, and yesmovieshd.to.
Cinecalidad is probably one of the largest targets. The streaming site, whose .to domain currently redirects to an .is domain, is among the largest pirate streaming sites in Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, and Mexico.
Through the subpoena, the anti-piracy coalition asks Tonic to disclose information including names, physical addresses, IP addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, payment information, account updates, and account history associated with the domain registrants.
While .to is the top-level domain of the island kingdom of Tonga, the Tonic registry operates through Tonic Domains Corp., which has a U.S. presence and a California address. As such, it falls under the jurisdiction of US courts.
This means that Tonic Domains Corp will likely hand over the requested info. However, it’s unclear how effective this will be. If we look at some of the earlier subpoenas obtained by the MPA and ACE, the results are mixed.
For example, last October the anti-piracy coalition obtained a subpoena to uncover the operators of the streaming giant s.to. Despite this effort, the site continues to operate as usual from the same domain name.
The same applies to pepecine.to, ddl-warez.to, pelis24.to, unblocked.to, torrentgalaxy.to, solarmovie.to, soap2day.to, supernova.to, flixtor.to, and several other domains. These were targeted in the past but remain available today.
In some cases, site operators have decided to move to a new domain name, likely as a precaution. That is also the case with Cinecalidad.
Finally, there are some sites that simply ‘disappeared’. While it’s hard to be sure that ACE’s enforcement efforts are tied to this, it certainly played a role in some cases, including the shutdown of Ololo.to a few weeks ago.
The effectiveness of the subpoenas mostly depends on how actionable the information obtained from the Tonic registry proves to be. Many site owners will take measures to protect their identities, which makes it possible for them to continue business as usual. Those who don’t are in trouble.
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A copy of ACE/MPA’s latest subpoena request is available here (pdf).
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A set of terrible arguments about climate science may actually have violated laws.
Update 1/12/2021, 3:45pm EST: The OSTP has now released a formal statement on these documents via a pair of tweets, and it's an angry one. “Dr. Droegemeier was outraged to learn of the materials that were not shared with or approved by OSTP leadership," the statement reads. "He first became aware of the documents when contacted by the press, As a result, Dr. Droegemeier took swift action and the individuals responsible have been relieved of their duties at OSTP."
That would still leave Legates and Maue with positions at NOAA, but there is probably not enough time left in the administration for them to even establish a role for themselves in that agency, much less do further damage.
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Squashing some Nazis in a Web browser is just the break you needed today.
BONK! [credit: Nickireda ]
Back in 1992, id Software proved that it can be a lot of fun to shoot virtual Nazis on your computer with Wolfenstein 3D. Back in 2001, Amusement Vision proved it can be a lot of fun to roll around in a sphere collecting bananas with Super Monkey Ball.
This week, Itch.io game maker Nickireda proved that both of these concepts somehow fit perfectly together with Return to Castle Monkey Ball, a free fangame that you can play in an HTML5-compatible Web browser.
Yes, famed one-man-army B.J. Blazkowicz has somehow found himself trapped in a translucent sphere and without his usual arsenal of weaponry. Thus, you have to help BJ by tilting the entire world to guide his ball through Nazi-infested corridors, picking up bananas and looted treasures along the way for a high score.
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Lenovo is launching its first ThinkBook series laptop with a 16 inch display, as well as a new 14 inch model. Both the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p and Lenovo ThinkBook 14p are powered by AMD’s new Ryzen 5000H series processors, and the two new laptops …
Lenovo is launching its first ThinkBook series laptop with a 16 inch display, as well as a new 14 inch model. Both the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p and Lenovo ThinkBook 14p are powered by AMD’s new Ryzen 5000H series processors, and the two new laptops will be available in the first quarter of 2021, with starting prices of $1299 and […]
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The consumer electronics giant released a video showing the car testing in Austria.
Remember the Sony Vision-S from CES in 2020? It's back for 2021, and there's more than one. [credit: Sony ]
Perhaps the highlight of last year's CES was Sony's surprise battery electric concept car, the Vision-S. At the time, we thought that the Vision-S—which looked like a cross between a Porsche Taycan and a Lucid Air—was mostly meant to show off all the different enabling technologies it contained, from sensors to entertainment. Well, the Vision-S is back for this year's not-happening-in-Las-Vegas CES, and it seems the project might be a little more serious than we once thought.
As you'll see in the embedded video, Sony has been testing the Vision-S, both on a test track and public roads in Austria. Why Austria? That's where Magna Steyr is located, a contract car manufacturer that currently builds vehicles for other car companies, including the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, BMW 5 Series, Jaguar I-Pace, and Toyota Supra. And Magna Steyr is one of Sony's partners in the Vision-S, along with automotive tier 1 suppliers Bosch, Continental, and ZF, software company Elektrobit Automotive, mapping company HERE, as well as Nvidia, Blackberry (maker of QNX), and Qualcomm.
Over the past year, the Vision-S' sensor count has grown from 33 to 40, with Sony experimenting to see how it can improve the car's 360-degree safety system. The company has also been working on the interior to make it a more relaxing place to be, according to Izumi Kawanishi, senior VP for Sony's AI robotics business group.
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Gaming hardware maker Razer is showing off two concept products this week. Project Brooklyn is the most advanced gaming chair you’ve ever seen — it has a retractable 60-inch panoramic OLED display that floats in front of you when you want …
Gaming hardware maker Razer is showing off two concept products this week. Project Brooklyn is the most advanced gaming chair you’ve ever seen — it has a retractable 60-inch panoramic OLED display that floats in front of you when you want it and hides away when you don’t. The other concept is Project Hazel, a […]
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The Lenovo ThinkBook 13x i is an thin and light laptop that measures just 0.51 inches thick and weighs just 2.65 pounds. It’s an Intel Evo certified laptop which means you can expect long battery life, quick resume, and fast charging, among othe…
The Lenovo ThinkBook 13x i is an thin and light laptop that measures just 0.51 inches thick and weighs just 2.65 pounds. It’s an Intel Evo certified laptop which means you can expect long battery life, quick resume, and fast charging, among other things. It also has a 13.3 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel WQXA IPS […]
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And the person who found the treasure faces lawsuit from disgruntled treasure seeker.
Enlarge / Over 350,000 people tried and failed to find the Fenn treasure before someone finally solved the puzzle last June. (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)
A Utah man charged with causing more than $1,000 worth of damages in Yellowstone National Park has pleaded guilty to two felony charges, The New York Times reported last week. The man, 52-year-old Rodrick Dow Craythorn, had been hunting for a buried treasure chest hidden 10 years ago by an antiquities dealer named Forrest Fenn. Craythorn faces up to $270,000 in fines and 12 years in prison at his sentencing, slated for March 17.
Over 350,000 people tried and failed to find the treasure before Fenn announced that someone had finally solved his puzzle last June, although he declined at the time to name the winner or disclose the location where the chest had been found. Fenn himself died last September at the age of 90, and the finder has since come forward: 32-year-old Jack Stuef, a medical student originally from Michigan.
As we've reported previously, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Fenn buried a treasure chest filled with gold, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. He hid the clues to its location in a poem that is part of his 2010 self-published memoir, The Thrill of the Chase. Fenn claimed he set up the hunt to inspire people to explore nature by giving them a "good old-fashioned adventure." It was also a way to offer hope to those deeply affected by the Great Recession that followed the collapse of the housing market in 2008.
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When Lenovo launched a dual-screen laptop last year with an LCD front-facing screen and a secondary E Ink display on the lid, I figured it was an experiment that was likely to be a one-off design. But I was wrong because Lenovo just introduced the Len…
When Lenovo launched a dual-screen laptop last year with an LCD front-facing screen and a secondary E Ink display on the lid, I figured it was an experiment that was likely to be a one-off design. But I was wrong because Lenovo just introduced the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 i. This year’s model features a […]
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