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More than twenty-four hours before its official premiere, the fifth episode of the latest Game of Thrones season is already widely available on torrent and streaming sites.

According reports from several viewers, HBO Nordic accidentally made the episode available on its site a few hours ago.

“It’s online right now, if you want to go and watch it, but they might remove it soon. Someone probably messed up by putting it there,” Reddit user Ozires writes (spoiler warning).

After this it didn’t take long before someone ripped the show, and soon after many links to pirated copies started to appear.

TorrentFreak can confirm that the leak is indeed legitimate. The quality of the pirated copy we’ve seen is rather low, but nonetheless it’s receiving a lot of attention from Game of Thrones fans.

It’s rather ironic that HBO itself appears to be the source for this leak. The company decided to stop releasing promotional screeners this year, fearing that outsiders would leak them. Perhaps the company should take a good look at its internal policies as well.

Episode 5 on HBO Nordic

For several years in a row Game of Thrones has been the most pirated TV-show, and this year the interest is once again overwhelming.

While it’s too late to stop today’s leak from getting out, HBO has increased its efforts to combat piracy. In recent weeks thousands of pirates have received warnings in their mailboxes, and the company is also fervently taking down links to pirated copies of the show.

Screencap from the latest episode

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Googles Android Auto soll auch in Autos genutzt werden, die das System nicht unterstützen. Die Funktionen lassen sich künftig auf dem Smartphone nutzen. (Google I/O, Smartphone)

With 100 million active users, Telegram is one of the most used messaging services, but it’s much more than that.

The application, which is supported by all leading operating systems, also allows developers to create nifty bots. This can come in quite handy.

The new TorrZan bot, for example, can grab torrents directly from the messaging application. With a series of simple commands it’s easy to find or add popular torrents, which can then be downloaded with a simple click.

The torrent files are not shared over the user’s local network, but from TorrZan’s servers. Once a download is complete the files can be downloaded to a local device, or played directly if they are streamable.

We tried the free version, which allows people to test three torrents up to 10GB without speed restrictions. Downloading a copy of the film Sintel took just a few minutes and after it was completed an https link to the mp4 video played seamlessly on both iPhone and PC.

The developers of TorrZan say they created the service to provide an easy and convenient tool for people to download torrents, while keeping user privacy in mind.

“We created this bot only because we believe that it is the most convenient and easiest way to download torrents across all platforms that are supported by Telegram, which includes Android, iOS, Windows Phone, PC, Mac and Linux,” TorrZan’s team informs TorrentFreak.

TorrZan doesn’t record or store any logs of your downloading activity, which is good to know. As an added privacy bonus, it uses external servers to download the torrents so users’ local IP-addresses are not visible to the public.

Besides adding torrents or magnet links manually, users can also use the bot to search for files. This appears to work nicely for well-known titles, and avoids the extra step of having to search for links on third-party sites.

“We integrated a search feature that displays torrents from popular torrent sites right inside our bot. This means that our users don’t have to jump through hoops, they can simply find torrents and download them directly inside the same interface,” the TorrZan team says.

The bot is still in the early stage of development and the team is planning to introduce several new features and updates in the future. Among other things, they want to make it easier to integrate video and audio playback with local devices.

For now, anyone can test the service for free without any restrictions. However, the services uses a freemium model and after three torrents non-paying users are limited to 1 GB of storage and a 50 KB\s download limit.

Those interested in giving it a free spin can visit the official TorrZan site.

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In this episode Natan Edelsburg and Minda Smiley, executive editor and reporter at media and advertising platform The Drum respectively, reflect on the future of Over The Top TV.

We discuss how streaming services could ignite a new piracy war, Hulu’s use of pirate data to decide what content to acquire, and how new moves from the FCC could land Popcorn Time on set top boxes in the US.

Finally we eye a potentially unruly future for Over The Top, with the appearance of generic android-based hardware and easy-to-use, renegade services like Kodi and Viper Media. How will content producers and advertisers adapt?

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.

Host: Jamie King

Guest: Natan Edelsburg and Minda Smiley.

Produced by Jamie King
Edited & Mixed by Eric Bouthiller
Original Music by David Triana
Web Production by Siraje Amarniss

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Der Axel-Springer-Verlag hat in seinem juristischen Feldzug gegen Werbeblocker einen neuen Paragrafen ausgepackt. Damit könnte der Betreiber von Adblock Plus, die Eyeo GmbH, ihre Einnahmen in Deutschland verlieren. (AdBlocker, Virus)

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There are hundreds of ‘pirate’ sites on the Internet today, most of them run by groups who choose to remain in the shadows. Identities are prized pieces of information in the torrent and streaming worlds and they’re extremely tightly guarded.

There are exceptions of course. The original people behind The Pirate Bay are well known public figures and the same can be said of Gary Fung of isoHunt, for example. In general, however, people tend to distance themselves from piracy in case groups like the MPAA and RIAA decide to pounce.

That being said, apparently there are those who really couldn’t give a damn.

Established in 2005, Connect Communications is one of the largest Internet service providers in Karachi, Pakistan, and they are proud of it.

“Connect Communications offer state of the art broadband connection to your home on ethernet with trunk network on Optical Fiber. Now you can take full advantage of Gigabit Network for your various network utilities,” the company says.

“Our Residential Broadband access gives you the ultimate high speed Internet experience with download speeds up to 100Mbps. Download a full length movie in under 10 minutes or take advantage of our DoDear services such as playing online games at Connect’s game arena or downloading movies and music.”

Of course, many ISPs offer downloads but Connect’s DoDear service really goes the extra mile. It’s advertised on the company’s main page, as shown in the screenshot below (bottom right).

After accessing the DoDear portal one can immediately see this is no ordinary ISP service. On the main page lists of TV shows and movies appear alongside torrent-site like categories such as software, games, movies, videos and music. Clicking the movie tab removes all lingering thoughts that this might be a legitimate service.

With released and unreleased movies on the left and links to the uTorrent and BitTorrent clients plus VLC media player on the right, it soon becomes clear that Connect Communications are running a fully-fledged pirate site. And to make things easier for pirates, DoDear even allows users to filter movies by cam, telesync (TS), screener and master (DVDrip).

Software pirates are well catered for too. DoDear has several hundred applications for download, all neatly arranged with cover art for each title. The site also has plenty of games which are conveniently split into genres such as racing, action, adventure, shooting and sports.

Another factor which will be quite alien to torrent site users is the fact that DoDear is publicly recruiting for people to help run their portal.

“At dodear we are always seeking talented, creative and innovative professionals. If you’re the one with a passion for learning and exploring yourself and having the enthusiasm for proving youself then we can provide a fair value to you,” the service notes in its ‘careers‘ section.

This somewhat bizarre situation probably gives a flavor of why the United States Trade Representative considers Pakistan to be a piracy problem. Interestingly, however, the United States downgraded the threat last month, apparently because progress is being made.

“USTR is moving Pakistan from the Priority Watch List to the Watch List in 2016 with an [out of cycle review] due to the Government of Pakistan’s significant efforts to implement key provisions of the Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan Act of 2012 and the newfound determination with which Pakistan has approached IPR over the past 12 months,” the USTR said in its latest Special 301 Report (pdf).

For the curious, the DoDear pirate portal can be found here although people looking to download will be disappointed. Torrent links are blocked for non-Connect Communications customers.

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Die Beaglebone-Familie bekommt Zuwachs. An die Stelle des Ethernet-Anschlusses beim Original tritt beim Beaglebone Green Wireless ein Funkmodul für Wlan und Bluetooth. Die restliche Technik bleibt gleich. (Beagleboard, Linux)

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