Month: April 2025

Unter Regie von Shawn Levy soll in diesem Jahr die Produktion von Star Wars: Starfighter beginnen. Bis zum Filmstart dauert es noch etwas. (Star Wars, Disney)

Welcome to Edition 7.40 of the Rocket Report! One of the biggest spaceflight questions in my mind right now is when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will fly again. The company has been saying "late spring." Today, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said they were told June. Several officials have suggested to Ars that the next launch will, in reality, occur no earlier than October. So when will we see New Glenn again?

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Phantom Space delays Daytona launch, again. In a story that accepts what Phantom Space Founder Jim Cantrell says at face value, Payload Space reports that the company is "an up-and-coming launch provider and satellite manufacturer" and has "steadily built a three-pronged business model to take on the industry’s powerhouses." It's a surprisingly laudatory story for a company that has yet to accomplish much in space yet.

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With millions of daily users, Reddit is undoubtedly one of the most visited sites on the Internet.

The community-oriented platform has “subreddits” dedicated to pretty much every topic one can think of, including several that are linked to online piracy and related issues.

As the platform continued to grow into the $17 billion company that it is today, rightsholders started to pay attention to these discussions. Eight years ago, Reddit was asked to remove ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content, but that increased to well over a million a few years later.

Reddit Publishes Transparency Report

This week, Reddit published its latest transparency report which shows that this year-long upward trend has reversed recently. The company now receives fewer and fewer takedown requests.

The takedown surge peaked in 2023 with rightsholders asking the platform to remove more than 1.7 million pieces of content. The latest figures indicate that this number declined by roughly 50% last year to 879,645.

This is a significant drop by itself. However, it’s even more pronounced if we look at the number of requests Reddit took action on. This decreased to 550,554 items last year, compared to 1.2 million removals a year earlier.

The lower actionability rate is mostly driven by the second half of last year, where less than half of all items flagged by rightsholders were removed. This is mostly caused by duplicate reports.

The chart below^(*) shows that Reddit also declined to take action in response to tens of thousands of reports because it didn’t find any infringement. Meanwhile, 5,573 reports failed to identify specific content and 1,721 items were suspected to be fraudulently reported.

Fair ‘AI’ Use

Reddit also declined to remove content because it deemed these to be “fair use”. The absolute number for these is very low, 360 items in the final half of last year, but the reasons provided are all the more intriguing.

For example, Reddit declined to take action in response to a notice from a major sports rightsholder because the identified clip wasn’t a full broadcast, but an AI-generated parody.

“The rightsholder for a major televised sporting event submitted a copyright takedown notice seeking the removal of a video from Reddit, and identified their copyrighted work as a full broadcast,” Reddit notes.

“The video posted to Reddit used AI to significantly transform and parody a short clip taken from the original broadcast. We declined to remove this content because we believe it makes fair use of the broadcast.”

The example provided by Reddit is unique and rare, but it indicates that the company pays attention to individual notices, including potential defenses against copyright infringement claims.

Repeat Infringers

Moving on, Reddit reports that in the second half of 2024, it banned 1,813 users for repeat copyright infringements. In addition, 181 subreddits were banned permanently for the same reason.

The number of user bans is significantly higher than the first half of the year, and for the subreddits this effect is reversed.

Looking further back, these copyright-related bans are down significantly from their 2022 peak, similar to the removals. Reddit previously banned 5,853 users in 2022, while 3,215 subreddits were taken offline that year.

It will be interesting to see if these copyright action downtrends continue in the years to come. That is certainly not a given, as is exemplified by Google’s recent copyright takedown resurgence.

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Note: ^(*) This breakdown doesn’t appear to include all reported items from noticed that were classified as invalid. We report them as they appeared in the report.

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

Die Entwicklung des 2,5-Milliarden-US-Dollar-Projekts begann im Jahr 2017. Vor einem Monat wurde mit den Bauarbeiten begonnen. (Windpark, Politik)

Der Mobilfunkempfang in Tunneln stellt Netzbetreiber vor besondere Herausforderungen. Vodafone setzt auf neue Antennen von Ericsson. (Mobilfunk, Technologie)

Über zwei Marktbereiche der Onlinewerbung besitzt Google ein illegales Monopol, so eine US-Richterin. (Google, Ad-Server)

Vietnam hat einen Abzweig des Asia Direct Cable (ADC) in Betrieb genommen. Damit steigt die Seekabel-Kapazität um 125 Prozent. (Seekabel, Telekommunikation)

1&1 bietet Kunden im Festnetz einen kostenlosen 1&1 Homeserver von AVM. Der wird sonst für 5 Euro im Monat vermietet (1&1, DSL)

SpaceX will eine Schlüsselrolle in Präsident Trumps Raketenabwehrprogramm Golden Dome übernehmen. Auch Palantir und Anduril sollen sich beteiligen. (SpaceX, Politik)

Die Wurzeln von Conways Gesetz gehen zurück bis in die 1960er. Zu Beginn belächelt, gilt es heute mehr denn je. Von Tim Reinboth (Denkpause, Softwareentwicklung)