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Der Herr der Ringe: Die Ringe der Macht: Epische Rückkehr nach Mittelerde

Die langerwartete Serie um die Vorgeschichte von Der Herr der Ringe ist bei Amazon gestartet. Epische Fantasy wird geboten. Eine Rezension von Peter Osteried (Der Herr der Ringe, Streaming)

Wir brauchen mehr Ströbele-Geist in der Politik!

Hans-Christian Ströbele ließ sich nie kaufen – weder durch Posten noch durch eine Profitlobby. Ein Nach- und Aufruf eines langjährigen Parlamentskollegen.

Movie Pirate Sentenced in Criminal Case Designed to Send Warning

A former private torrent site user who downloaded around 40 movies has received a 30-day conditional prison sentence in Denmark. While the case covered just one person, the prosecution was carefully crafted to send a deterrent message: any persistent pirate risks prosecution in a criminal court.

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

The decision whether to pirate content or pay for it is ultimately a personal choice influenced by any number of factors.

From content availability to the ability to pay, from wanting content now or being forced to wait, the scales can easily tip one way or the other.

By emphasizing the benefits of legal consumption and elevating public perception of risk, anti-piracy groups try to tip the scales in favor of rightsholders. Showing real-life consequences of piracy is one of the available options.

Deterrence For All

Torrent sites offering Danish content were popular in Denmark for obvious reasons, at least until anti-piracy group Rights Alliance teamed up with police to shut them down.

When key DanishBits players were arrested, convicted and later sent to prison, anyone inclined to launch a new site had a crystal clear example of the potential risks. As a deterrent to regular BitTorrent users, it wasn’t the right message.

The pursuit of high-level players would’ve simply reinforced the belief that only those at the top face any risk. But Rights Alliance hadn’t forgotten regular torrent site users and was preparing to send them a hand-crafted message.

Regular BitTorrent User Sentenced

A former user of DanishBits appeared in court Thursday having pleaded guilty to sharing around 40 movies on DanishBits. As previously reported, he had no formal connections with the site other than membership, and wasn’t part of any specific uploader group. He was a normal user, much like any other.

Rights Alliance needed a conviction that would resonate with the general public so after hiring a specialist company to gather tracking evidence, a case was built against the DanishBits user. Instead of being handed to a lawfirm for civil action, the case was accepted by the police for criminal prosecution.

Yesterday the Court of Frederiksberg handed down a 30-day conditional prison sentence and ordered the man to pay DKK 2,840 (US$380) in damages, the exact amount requested by Rights Alliance on behalf of its rightsholder partners. The Court also ordered the confiscation of two computers and external hard drives.

Compared to the wild damages awards available to U.S. courts in civil cases, $380 may seem insignificant. But what it represents is a real amount attached to a very real criminal conviction, one that Rights Alliance (RA) believes can offer significant support to credible anti-piracy messaging.

RA: Conviction Marks a Turning Point

Considering the importance of the prosecution, TorrentFreak asked Rights Alliance CEO Maria Fredenslund if the conditional prison sentence would send the right kind of message. Was it too harsh, or perhaps not harsh enough?

“That was what the prosecution was going for, and we certainly think that a prison sentence has a deterrent effect,” Fredenslund says.

“Not least because the compensation claim is also taken into account, and our experience with the’ environment’ shows that it also means a lot for the preventive effect.”

Rights Alliance obviously wants knowledge of the conviction to be a dominant factor when choices are being made over whether to pirate content or pay for it. Maria Fredenslund believes that the combination of police intervention and adjudication of compensation claims in criminal cases could help tip the scales in favor of legal content.

But just as importantly, Rights Alliance CEO believes that the case represents a turning point in the fight against piracy – the involvement of the police.

“Finally, we have come to the point where the theft of films, series and other content is also a task that the police take care of. It is a necessity and therefore also a milestone in the work to ensure good conditions in the digital area,” Fredenslund concludes.

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

Ring Intercom: Amazon erweitert herkömmliche Gegensprechanlage

Die Amazon-Tochter Ring will die Nutzung herkömmlicher Gegensprechanlagen komfortabler machen und die Zustellung von Amazon-Lieferungen ermöglichen, wenn niemand zu Hause ist. (Ifa 2022, Smart Home)

Warum die Geldpolitik der EZB verfehlt ist

Aus Krisen nichts gelernt: Temporäre Effekte auf die Preissteigerungsrate sind von einer wirklichen Inflation zu unterscheiden. Die Notenbank, die Rezession und Italien. Ein Kommentar.

Ölembargo: Bundesregierung garantiert erneut Bestand von Raffinerie in Schwedt

Wie sie mit ausreichenden Mengen Rohöl versorgt werden soll, ist aber weiter unklar. Einwohner der Region zeigen sich enttäuscht und fordern, bei Politikern endlich Gehör zu finden.

Actors behind PyPI supply chain attack have been active since late 2021

Group that pulled off successful attack on PyPI has humble origins.

The official software repository for the Python language, Python Package Index (PyPI), has been targeted in a complex supply chain attack that appears to have successfully poisoned at least two legitimate projects with credential-stealing malware, researchers said on Thursday.

PyPI officials said last week that project contributors were under a phishing attack that attempted to trick them into divulging their account login credentials. When successful, the phishers used the compromised credentials to publish malware that posed as the latest release for legitimate projects associated with the account. PyPI quickly took down the compromised updates and urged all contributors to use phishing-resistant forms of two-factor authentication to protect their accounts better.

Today we received reports of a phishing campaign targeting PyPI users. This is the first known phishing attack against PyPI.

We’re publishing the details here to raise awareness of what is likely an ongoing threat.
— Python Package Index (@pypi) August 24, 2022

On Thursday, researchers from security firms SentinelOne and Checkmarx said that the supply chain attacks were part of a larger campaign by a group that has been active since at least late last year to spread credential-stealing malware the researchers are dubbing JuiceStealer. Initially, JuiceStealer was spread through a technique known as typosquatting, in which the threat actors seeded PyPI with hundreds of packages that closely resembled the names of well-established ones, in the hopes that some users would accidentally install them.

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Lilbits: Samsung brings Android 12L to the Galaxy Tab 8 series, HMD introduces the Nokia T21 tablet

Samsung is one of the few companies making premium Android tablets these days… and the company’s been at it for years, even when Google seemed to have largely given up on the space. But now that Google has remembered that tablets are a thi…

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Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused

Fog Reveal is “almost invisible” when attempting to search for it online.

Much is known about how the federal government leverages location data by serving warrants to major tech companies like Google or Facebook to investigate crime in America. However, much less is known about how location data influences state and local law enforcement investigations. It turns out that's because many local police agencies intentionally avoid mentioning the under-the-radar tech they use—sometimes without warrants—to monitor private citizens.

As one Maryland-based sergeant wrote in a department email, touting the benefit of "no court paperwork" before purchasing the software, "The success lies in the secrecy."

This week, an investigation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Associated Press—supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting—has made public what could be considered local police's best-kept secret. Their reporting revealed the potentially extreme extent of data surveillance of ordinary people being tracked and made vulnerable just for moving about small-town America.

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Jagd auf Erdgas: Wird Frankreich Soldaten im Jemen-Krieg einsetzen?

Riesige Gas-Funde in afrikanischen Ländern wecken Begehrlichkeiten in der EU. Frankreich will Medienberichten zufolge Soldaten in den Jemen-Krieg schicken, um ein LNG-Terminal zu sichern. Kommen jetzt Gaskriege statt Erneuerbare?