Umfrage: Wer sind die besten Arbeitgeber für ITler?

Was macht dein Arbeitgeber gut und was nicht – und würdest du deine Firma weiterempfehlen? Bitte nimm an unserer Befragung für IT-Fachkräfte teil, es dauert nur wenige Minuten. (Arbeit, Studien)

Was macht dein Arbeitgeber gut und was nicht - und würdest du deine Firma weiterempfehlen? Bitte nimm an unserer Befragung für IT-Fachkräfte teil, es dauert nur wenige Minuten. (Arbeit, Studien)

Netflix and Amazon DMCA Notices Target Legal Streaming Options

Copyright holders have sent billions of takedown requests to Google. Their goal is to make it harder for people to find pirated content through the search engine. However, when legal options such as Reelgood are targeted, takedown requests can end up being counterproductive.

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

reelgoodCopyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or make it harder to find.

The efficacy of the DMCA takedown process is open for debate, but it certainly doesn’t help when companies flag legal websites as copyright-infringing.

It is particularly ironic when these mistakenly targeted sites are supposed to help the public find their way to the right streaming service. This is exactly what happened recently.

Netflix and Amazon Target Reelgood

Anti-piracy company Marketly, which handles DMCA takedown requests for many reputable rightsholders, repeatedly targeted URLs from the streaming search engine Reelgood. This Webby-award-winning service has nothing to do with piracy. Instead, it helps people to find sources to stream movies and series online legally.

Apparently, this rather important nuance wasn’t picked up by the takedown software. As a result, several Reelgood pages have been removed from Google’s search results.

One of the notices in question was sent in on behalf of Netflix. It lists a few hundred URLs that allegedly point to pirated copies of titles such as DAHMER, Cable Girls, Cursed, and Bridgerton.

In most cases the links indeed point to problematic sites but Reelgood is also thrown into the mix. Not just that; Google has also removed this page from its search results.

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Another DMCA notice, sent by the same takedown outfit, aims to protect Amazon content. This includes URLs that point to pirated copies of Clarkson’s Farm, Britannia, and Bosch: Legacy. Again, Reelgood was erroneously included and removed from Google search.

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Looking at Google’s transparency report we see that Amazon and Netflix are not alone. Reelgood has been targeted repeatedly over the years. In some cases, Google decided not to take action in response but in the aforementioned cases, both URLs were removed.

Counterproductive

We’re aware of the fact that these are cherry-picked mistakes we’re reporting here. The overwhelming majority of all the links reported to Google indeed point to infringing content. However, that doesn’t mean that it’s not preventable.

There are just a few major legal search engines such as Reelgood on the web. How hard can it be to add these URLs to a whitelist when it’s your job to find and report pirated URLs?

Right now, these takedowns have the opposite effect. By removing one of the few legal gateways from search results, a spot opens up for a scam-laden pirate site to take its place. That’s not real good.

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

Kein Anlassfall: Österreichs Regulierer sieht keine Gefahr durch Huawei

Nach dem Vorstoß von EU-Kommissar Breton, chinesische Ausrüster bei 5G auszuschließen, gibt es erste Reaktionen. Technische und inhaltliche Belege hat die EU-Kommission nicht vorgelegt. (5G, Huawei)

Nach dem Vorstoß von EU-Kommissar Breton, chinesische Ausrüster bei 5G auszuschließen, gibt es erste Reaktionen. Technische und inhaltliche Belege hat die EU-Kommission nicht vorgelegt. (5G, Huawei)

ASRock’s 4X4-7035 motherboards let you build your own mini PC with AMD Rembrandt-R chip

Earlier this year ASRock introduced a line of 4X4 BOX-7000 compact desktop computers powered by AMD Ryzen 7035 series chips based on Rembrandt-R architecture. Now the company is giving customers another option for using those chips in a mini PC: you c…

Earlier this year ASRock introduced a line of 4X4 BOX-7000 compact desktop computers powered by AMD Ryzen 7035 series chips based on Rembrandt-R architecture. Now the company is giving customers another option for using those chips in a mini PC: you can buy one of the tiny motherboards and use them in your own computer. […]

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The sleeper hits of Summer Game Fest 2023

Games about time travel, foam spraying guns, and… space hospitals?

The sleeper hits of Summer Game Fest 2023

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To fill the hole left by the lack of E3 in this year’s gaming calendar, there have been more than a few trailer-filled video presentations showing off hundreds of upcoming games. But for a select few creators and critics who could make it to Los Angeles, there were also some hands-on preview opportunities to play upcoming games at "Play Days" as part of this year’s Summer Game Fest "not E3" festivities.

Rather than focus on the big-name sequels and established franchises (which, let’s face it, usually just provide a small twist on their predecessors), we tried to focus on games from lesser-known studios. Here’s a selection of the 10 upcoming titles we played in the last week that you definitely shouldn’t sleep on, especially if you’re looking for something out of the ordinary.

33 Immortals

Platforms: Xbox Series X/S, Windows
Planned release: 2024
Links: Official site

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