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The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending August 20, 2022, are in. The sixth movie in the overall franchise, and the third movie in the current franchise, is the top-seller for the week. Find out what movie and franchise it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending August 20, 2022, are in. The sixth movie in the overall franchise, and the third movie in the current franchise, is the top-seller for the week. Find out what movie and franchise it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.
Google has removed several popular YouTube rippers from its UK search results. The company took this action following a notice from local music group BPI, which pointed out that local ISPs are required to block the sites due to a High Court order. In response, Google voluntarily took the same action.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Last year, the UK music industry claimed a major victory in its fight against online piracy.
Following a two-year process initiated by the British Recorded Music Industry Ltd (BPI) and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), the High Court ordered major ISPs to block access to several YouTube rippers.
The order aims to make these sites, including Flvto and 2Conv, harder to reach. Many workarounds exist but rightsholders have been particularly frustrated by search engines such as Google including the domains in their results.
Following the blocking order, the BPI asked Google to remove thousands of YouTube ripper links, but this is a game of whack-a-mole; targeted sites actively fight delistings by switching to new URLs.
A few days ago, BPI and PPL broke this impasse. The groups sent a copy of the UK High Court order to Google, requesting removal of the listed domains. While Google isn’t legally obliged to comply, it did so voluntarily, albeit only in the UK.
This is not the first time that the search engine has taken action based on a court order targeting a third party. Google has done the same in several other countries, including Australia, Denmark, France and the Netherlands.
The BPI previously requested similar removals in the UK. These included a wide variety of sites including The Pirate Bay, but the YouTube rippers were not mentioned until last week.
Deindexing from search results will make these YouTube rippers harder to find, but the game of whack-a-mole game is far from over as hundreds of other stream-rippers remain readily accessible.
Finally, its worth noting that while the music industry sees YouTube rippers as piracy tools, others see them as neutral services.
The Electonic Frontier Foundation (EFF), for example, wrote an amicus curiae brief in support of Flvto and 2Conv when they were sued for copyright infringement in the United States.
“Like a web browser, photocopy machine, or video recorder, the converters at issue in this case are neutral technologies, equally capable of lawful and infringing uses. And lawful uses abound, from saving a copy of a family member’s home video to downloading clips from a TV show as raw material for a critical commentary,” EFF wrote.
These comments didn’t help the YouTube rippers in question, as they eventually lost their legal battle against the RIAA earlier this year.
Google’s voluntary domain removals are noteworthy because the company openly warned against such measures in the past. In 2015, it told the U.S. Government that whole-site removals would chill free speech and be counterproductive.
“Whole site removal would simply drive piracy to new domains, legitimate sites, and social networks,” the company said at the time.
The search engine’s position has clearly shifted since its earlier criticism, at least when there’s a third-party court order involved. In a recent presentation to Japanese rightsholders, Google confirmed that it will ‘generally’ remove domains based on third-party injunctions.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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Google announced in May that it was working on a new Pixel Tablet, set to launch in 2023. And the company hasn’t said much about it since then. But folks have been digging through Android Open Source Project code, among other things to get an id…
Google announced in May that it was working on a new Pixel Tablet, set to launch in 2023. And the company hasn’t said much about it since then. But folks have been digging through Android Open Source Project code, among other things to get an idea of what to expect. We already knew that it […]
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Researchers analyzed real recommendations to hundreds of YouTube users.
Enlarge (credit: Nathan Howard / Stringer | Getty Images News)
For years, researchers have suggested that algorithms feeding users content aren't the cause of online echo chambers, but are more likely due to users actively seeking out content that aligns with their beliefs. This week, New York University researchers for the Center for Social Media and Politics showed results from a YouTube experiment that just happened to be conducted right when election fraud claims were raised in fall 2020. They say their results provide an important caveat to prior research by showing evidence that in 2020, YouTube's algorithm was responsible for "disproportionately" recommending election fraud content to users more "skeptical of the election's legitimacy to begin with."
A coauthor of the study, Vanderbilt University political scientist James Bisbee told The Verge that even though participants were recommended a low number of election denial videos—a maximum of 12 videos out of hundreds participants clicked on—the algorithm generated three times as many to people predisposed to buy into the conspiracy than it to people who did not. "The more susceptible you are to these types of narratives about the election... the more you would be recommended content about that narrative," Bisbee said.
YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez told Ars that Bisbee's team's report "doesn't accurately represent how our systems work." Hernandez says, "YouTube doesn't allow or recommend videos that advance false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 US presidential election" and YouTube's "most viewed and recommended videos and channels related to elections are from authoritative sources, like news channels."
Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis.
Enlarge / LG's OLED Flex LX3 TV won't pick a side. (credit: LG)
If you've been watching display tech lately, you may have noticed an interesting feature: bendable displays. Yes, monitors and TVs that you can bend to be either flat or curved are purportedly coming out soon. The feature is meant to appease those who can't settle on flat or curved, and most upcoming products feel similarly indecisive, exhibiting identity crises that make it hard to see where they fit... literally. Does something like this belong in a living room, office, or gaming den?
In the case of the LG OLED Flex LX3 4K TV announced Wednesday (no price or release date), the most obvious answer is the living room. It's a 42-inch TV with a tuner, LG's webOS, and even LG Display's OLED Evo technology used in the LG C2 TV. The primary difference from every other TV is that this one has buttons (including buttons on the remote) for changing the screen from flat to a 900R curvature across 20 steps. That provides the potential for an extremely curved TV.
The thing is, you probably don't want to watch curved television. Vendors tried making this a thing years ago, but as we wrote back then, curved TVs mostly accommodate people sitting pretty close to and directly in front of the TV. That's not how most people gather 'round the heart of the living room. Living room TVs are frequently shared, with people sitting at various distances from the screen and at varying angles. But up close and centered sounds awfully similar to how most people use monitors.
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