Month: February 2022

The Black Shark 4 Pro is a gaming phone with a 6.67 inch, 2400 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display with a 144 Hz refresh rate, a 720 Hz touch sampling rate, and 1300 nits peak brightness. Launched in China last year, the phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor and supports up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.

Now Black Shark is taking the phone global: It’s available in select countries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East with prices starting at $579 / €579 / £489.

That starting price will get you a phone with 8GB of LPDDR5 6400 MHz memory and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage, or you can pay an extra $100/ €100 / £80 for a model with 50% more RAM and double the storage space.

While the phone’s Snapdragon 888 processor might not deliver quite the same level of performance as the newer Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor that powers some other gaming phones, the phone does have a few things going for it including support for 120 watt fast charging, which Black Shark says can fully charge the phone’s 4500 mAh battery in just 15 minutes, or take it from 0 to 50% in as little as 5 minutes.

The phone also has a liquid cooling system, magnetic trigger buttons, USB-C and 3.5mm headphone jacks, stereo speakers, and a fingerprint sensor.

The Black Shark 4 Pro has a 20MP front-facing camera and three rear cameras including a 64MP primary camera, 8MP wide-angle camera, and 5MP macro camera. And the phone supports WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, and 5G cellular networks with dual SIM support.

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Pirate site blockades are the preferred anti-piracy tool for many copyright holders around the world. This is also the case in Australia, where blocking injunctions are commonplace today.

This week, a group of prominent Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Village Roadshow, obtained the latest blocking order in Australia’s Federal Court.

Fresh Blocking Order

The complaint, filed in December, targets 34 sites and a total of 54 domain names. Most of the pirate sites are streaming portals, such as 123movies, Yomovies, Soap2Day, Myflixer, Vumoo, and 123Chill.

The movie companies also added ETTVCentral.com, a domain that was used by the popular torrent distribution group ETTV. However, that doesn’t make much of an impact as the site was shut down due to financial issues a few weeks ago.

The court’s order is directed at all the major Australian Internet providers including those operating under Telstra, Optus, Vocus, TPG and Vodafone corporate groups. These ISPs have 15 days to disable access to the listed domains and IP addresses.

In addition, Internet providers are required to inform blocked visitors about the underlying court action. This can be done by redirecting traffic to a dedicated blocking page.

“[ISPs] must use reasonable efforts to ensure that the webpage informs the user of that Respondent’s service that access to that website has been disabled because this Court has determined that it infringes or facilitates the infringement of copyright,” the order reads.

Whack a Mole

In the past, pirate sites have often switched to new domain names in an attempt to bypass blocking measures. This is still an option today, but the rightsholders have the liberty to send updated locations to the ISPs, which then have to be blocked as well.

This week’s order is initially valid for three years but the movie companies are allowed to ask for an extension if the sites remain operational going forward.

In theory, the affected sites have the option to object to the blocking measures but, as far as we know, none of the pirate sites intends to do so.

Most of the pirate sites that will be blocked gained popularity after their competitors were targeted in earlier blocking rounds. We expect that this pattern will continue to repeat itself.

At the same time, however, there is also research that suggests that the majority of Aussie pirates simply give up instead of looking for alternative sources. A smaller but significant percentage use a VPN to bypass the blocking measures.

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– Yomovies.so
– Yomovies.is
– Yomovies.ac
– Yomovies.cs
– Yomovies.sh
– Cimaclub.cc
– Cima-club.cc
– Goojara.to
– Movamovie.net
– Nmovies.cc
– 123movies.gy
– 123movies.vu
– 123movies.page
– 123movies.ms
– Movieswatch.tv
– Putlocker-website.com
– Musichq.net
– Dopebox.to
– Dopebox.net
– 123chill.to
– 123series.ru
– M4uhd.tv
– Flixhq.ru
– Ummagurau.com
– Watchmovieshd.ru
– Kiss-cartoon.io
– Soap2day.video
– Soap2day.film
– Swatchseries.ru
– Watchserieshd.ru
– Watchserieshd.ru
– Ettvcentral.com
– Vumoo.life
– W-123movies.com
– 123moviess.sc
– New.la123movies.org
– La123movies.org
– 123movies-official.site
– M4ufree.com
– Ssoap2day.to
– Ssoap2day.art
– Moviesjoy.one
– Gomovies.fan
– Putlockers.li
– 7movierulz.lv
– 7movierulz.pw
– 7movierulz.mg
– 7movierulz.vg
– 7movierulz.mx
– 7movierulz.pe
– Myflixer.to
– Primewire.es
– Putlocker.es

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Enlarge / A health care worker treats a patient inside a negative pressure room in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Missouri, on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)

Spread of COVID-19 within US hospitals hit a record high in January, with more than 3,000 hospital-acquired infections each week during the month and a peak of over 4,300, according to an analysis of federal data by Politico.

The surge of hospital transmissions mirrored the towering wave of cases in the overall population driven by the ultratransmissible omicron variant. The previous record for hospital-transmission of COVID-19 occurred in January 2020 when federal data caught over 2,000 infections per week within hospitals.

Still the numbers overall are likely to be significant undercounts given that they only capture patients who spend 14 consecutive days in a hospital and become infected during their stay. The data does not account for shorter stays or people who test positive after discharge.

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