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Für China wird der Zugriff auf Belichtungsmaschinen von ASML immer schwieriger. Selbst bestehende Lieferzusagen werden nun gekippt. (ASML, Politik)
Dass die Figur der Seeschlange aus House of the Dragon eine eigene Serie bekommen soll, war bereits bekannt – wie sie aussehen soll, aber noch nicht. (House of the Dragon, Streaming)
Dass die Figur der Seeschlange aus House of the Dragon eine eigene Serie bekommen soll, war bereits bekannt - wie sie aussehen soll, aber noch nicht. (House of the Dragon, Streaming) Im Märze 2024 will Microsoft den neuen Regeln der EU entsprechen. Deshalb muss es viele Änderungen in Windows 10 und Windows 11 vornehmen. (Windows 11, Microsoft)
Im Märze 2024 will Microsoft den neuen Regeln der EU entsprechen. Deshalb muss es viele Änderungen in Windows 10 und Windows 11 vornehmen. (Windows 11, Microsoft) Einen großen Anteil an neuen Solaranlagen in Deutschland haben Balkonkraftwerke. Auch für 2024 geht der Solarverband von einem Boom aus. (Solarenergie, Energiewende)
Einen großen Anteil an neuen Solaranlagen in Deutschland haben Balkonkraftwerke. Auch für 2024 geht der Solarverband von einem Boom aus. (Solarenergie, Energiewende) Der Ausblick aufs neue Jahr zeigt: Auch abseits von Dune, Alien und Godzilla gibt es 2024 einige Highlights für Fans des Genres. Von Peter Osteried (Science-Fiction, Film)
Der Ausblick aufs neue Jahr zeigt: Auch abseits von Dune, Alien und Godzilla gibt es 2024 einige Highlights für Fans des Genres. Von Peter Osteried (Science-Fiction, Film) Best shooters have greater control over release point height, trunk lean in particular.
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: Using markerless motion capture technology to determine what makes the best free throw shooters in basketball.
Markerless motion capture technology shows the biomechanics of free-throw shooters. Credit: Jayhawk Athletic Peformance Laboratory.
Basketball season is in full swing and in a close game, the team that makes the highest percentage of free throws can often eke out the win. A better understanding of the precise biomechanics of the best free-throw shooters could translate into critical performance player performance improvement. Researchers at the University of Kansas in Lawrence used markerless motion capture technology to do just that, reporting their findings in an August paper published in the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living.
“We’re very interested in analyzing basketball shooting mechanics and what performance parameters differentiate proficient from nonproficient shooters,” said co-author Dimitrije Cabarkapa, director of the Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory at the University of Kansas. “High-speed video analysis is one way that we can do that, but innovative technological tools such as markerless motion capture systems can allow us to dig even deeper into that. In my opinion, the future of sports science is founded on using noninvasive and time-efficient testing methodologies.”
NEOSMAY is selling a compact, fanless computer with an Intel N100 quad-core Alder Lake-N processor and 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports for $250 (after you clip the $150-off coupon at Amazon). Positioned as a “fanless industrial mini PC,” or “…
NEOSMAY is selling a compact, fanless computer with an Intel N100 quad-core Alder Lake-N processor and 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports for $250 (after you clip the $150-off coupon at Amazon). Positioned as a “fanless industrial mini PC,” or “micro firewall appliance,” the little computer is designed for 24/7 operation and should support a wide range […]
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New Year’s resolutions come in all shapes and sizes, with an equal number of excuses to explain what went wrong. From today, January 1st 2024, here at TorrentFreak we’re quietly hoping that anti-piracy companies will at least try to stop targeting us with bogus DMCA notices. At the start of 2023, the main culprits managed less than three weeks while others were still sending them two days ago.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Any content creator who sees their work being used by unauthorized third-parties can file DMCA notices against platforms communicating that content to the public.
Platforms should respond by taking allegedly-infringing content down but in practice, some do and some don’t.
Full-blown pirate sites may not respond to notices at all for obvious reasons but some entirely legitimate platforms also refuse to comply in appropriate circumstances.
Google is one of those platforms and without the diligence of the Google Search team, at least 150 articles published on TorrentFreak.com would’ve been disappeared over the years due to bogus DMCA notices. We very much appreciate that first line of defense; since we don’t have to commit resources towards countering wrongful complaints, we can concentrate on our reporting.
To that end, today we can report that DMCA notices continued to be filed against us at Google, all of them demanding the deindexing of links to our news reports in Google search. We also received a few direct to us via email, more than usual in 2023. All complaints/takedown notices had something in common; 100% bogus, right across the board, and a complete waste of resources for everyone involved.
By January 19, 2023, things were looking quite promising. No direct DMCA notices sent by email and no complaints sent to Google either, at least as far as we’re aware. On January 20, Google received a takedown demand to deindex from search results an article published just four days earlier.
Due to the popularity of the software, we believed that the alleged operator of pirate app PikaShow being arrested in India was newsworthy. Sadly, India-based anti-piracy outfit Markscan (on behalf of Hotstar and/or rightsholder Novi Digital Entertainment Pvt. Ltd) decided that Google should deindex our work, as the notice on Lumen Database reveals.
Google’s transparency report indicates that the notice, which demanded the removal of 47 URLs, was rejected in its entirety but because we mentioned PikaShow by name, the takedown notices kept on coming.
On January 21, Markscan sent a substantially similar DMCA takedown notice to Google, this time on behalf of the Disney+ Hotstar “over-the-top streaming service owned by Novi Digital Entertainment of Disney Star and operated by Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, both divisions of The Walt Disney Company.”
Once again, the complaint demanded the removal of our article. The next day, January 22, Novi Digital Entertainment tried its hand with a similar takedown notice which targeted the same article once again. It enjoyed the same level of success as the first.
Inexplicably, on the very same day yet another anti-piracy company tried to remove exactly the same article but for different reasons. Working on behalf of Cricket Australia, India-based Copyright Integrity International claimed our article was in direct violation of its client’s rights in content relating to cricket matches of the KFC Big Bash League.
There were no violations, obviously, but in the cut-and-thrust world of bulk URL disappearance, no one sends notices demanding that content stays up.
On October 22, 2022, we reported that the season finale of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” had leaked online, two days ahead of its official premiere.
After almost two weeks of DMCA silence following the PikaShow debacle, the calm was interrupted by a new complaint from Markscan. Alongside demands to take down links to House of the Dragon episodes and season packs on various pirate sites, this notice informed Google that our report on the months-old leak infringed Warner’s copyrights. It didn’t in any way.
And then, adding insult to injury, Hotstar sent another DMCA takedown notice to Google, this time targeting a different article that also mentioned PikaShow; or ƿᵻꝄɅ§ƕɵꟺ for those who don’t want to be targeted by bogus notices seemingly reliant on basic keyword searches.
When anti-piracy companies target a platform directly, Google’s diligence doesn’t enter the equation. Any DMCA notices received must be treated as legal documents and responses must be governed accordingly. On April 3, 2023, we received an email from Turkey-based anti-piracy outfit DigiGuardians Inc. and since the title contained the words ‘Copyright Claim’ we immediately gave it our full attention.
This is a notice in accordance with the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) a part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 requesting the service providers to be held strictly liable for the acts of their users & immediately cease the access to copyrighted material. We have found an infringing material in your website which indeed is our movie ‘Güneşin Kızları’ released worldwide in 2015
The notice listed three URLs which needed to be “disabled immediately” along with a statement that the “information in the notification is accurate.” Unfortunately, we were unable to comply with the takedown demands because the URLs provided were not for TorrentFreak.com but an entirely different domain that we’d never heard of, under someone else’s control.
We aren’t publishing the domain name here since it’s flagged as malicious by several security vendors and blocked by a laundry list of DNS providers. What we can confirm is that graphics from TF were used on this bogus platform to make it look like a news site, albeit one with our logo, authors’ names, and sundry other pieces of information removed.
Sixty-two minutes after receiving the takedown notice, a detailed report containing all necessary information to show why the notice shouldn’t have been sent to us, was sent back to DigiGuardians. We even included a screenshot and explanatory text using the most sophisticated font available today.
We received no response to our detailed response addressing the bogus notice, which was also sent to a file-hosting platform that we’d never heard of, an email address listed in WHOIS records, and hosting company LeaseWeb, apparently.
On April 4, 2023, DigiGuardians sent another substantially similar DMCA takedown notice, with the domain name of the malicious site in the title, this time demanding the removal of 50 allegedly infringing URLs. Just seconds later we received yet another takedown notice demanding the removal of an additional 50 URLs, followed by another seconds after that containing a further 10 URLs.
“The information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed,” the complaints added, pointlessly.
Then in the middle of October, DigiGuardians unexpectedly reached out, indicating they were interested in working with us to publish news on products or services, that type of thing. Nothing wrong with that of course but since TorrentFreak is a news site, we politely declined and said we’d happily take a look at anything newsworthy, should anything come up.
We also asked about the problematic takedown notices and noted that we’d be grateful if someone could fix the problem. Hard to say with 100% certainty that a bot responded, but the text seemed to assume we were interested in the offer. Sadly, it mentioned nothing about the copyright claims.
After largely forgetting about the earlier run of nuisance, erroneous notices, on December 14 we started receiving them again. This time we were instructed to remove five allegedly infringing URLs pointing to the movie ‘Muhteşem İkili’ but once again a fundamental problem got in the way.
The infringing URLs listed in the notice were for a completely different and new domain, also nothing to do with us.
On December 29, when we received not one but two ‘Copyright Claims’ demanding the removal of over 50 URLs on someone else’s domain, after our communications about these issues were ignored yet again, inclusion in today’s list of bogus takedown notices was sealed.
In closing, we must acknowledge that these companies face massive challenges in their line of work and as such, mistakes will inevitably get made. We’re not unsympathetic either but when the same mistakes get made over and over again against the same site, one that is more likely to mention these disasters in public than any other online today, you do start to wonder.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Trotz des abrupten Endes der staatlichen E-Auto-Förderung bietet Mercedes-Benz seinen Kunden weiterhin finanzielle Anreize für den Kauf von Elektroautos. (Mercedes Benz, Elektroauto)
Trotz des abrupten Endes der staatlichen E-Auto-Förderung bietet Mercedes-Benz seinen Kunden weiterhin finanzielle Anreize für den Kauf von Elektroautos. (Mercedes Benz, Elektroauto) Die Original-Schwarz-Weiß-Versionen von Micky und Minnie Maus aus dem Disney-Kurzfilm Steamboat Willie von 1928 sind in den USA seit dem 1. Januar 2024 gemeinfrei. (Urheberrecht, Disney)
Die Original-Schwarz-Weiß-Versionen von Micky und Minnie Maus aus dem Disney-Kurzfilm Steamboat Willie von 1928 sind in den USA seit dem 1. Januar 2024 gemeinfrei. (Urheberrecht, Disney) 
Für China wird der Zugriff auf Belichtungsmaschinen von ASML immer schwieriger. Selbst bestehende Lieferzusagen werden nun gekippt. (
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