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Zweihundert Jahre nach dem großen Atomkrieg krabbelt der Spieler in Boston an die postnukleare Erdoberfläche - und kann dann in Fallout 4 ein episches Abenteuer vom Feinsten erleben. Wie das auf den unterschiedlichen Plattformen aussieht, zeigt Golem.de im Grafikvideo. (Fallout 4, Spieletest)

As previously reported, huge Russian torrent site RuTracker has been having some serious legal issues with copyright holders, not least the music industry.

Labels including Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI want the tracker to stop infringing their copyrights. This, or face being blocked by Russian ISPs – for eternity.

After the filing of a lawsuit at the Moscow City Court last month, RuTracker was faced with a dilemma. On the one hand the site could delete around 320,000 torrents to comply with the labels’ wishes. On the other they could leave the content intact and face a ban.

Late last month the site polled its members and the response was clear. While 33% were prepared to delete the torrents, 67% said no way, voting in favor of accepting a blockade and then circumventing it.

At the time of writing 983,400 people have voted, all of them members for at least one month to avoid rigging. RuTracker’s operators believe this could be one of the biggest online votes in the entire history of the Russian Internet.

But RuTracker’s problems aren’t only with the music industry. Earlier, local publishing giant ‘Eksmo‘ also filed a legal complaint after content wasn’t quickly removed from the site.

So with defiance on the table the Court had a simple decision to make. Given that it agrees that RuTracker isn’t removing copyrighted content as it should, Russian law now allows for strict measures to be taken against the site. Earlier this morning that’s exactly what happened.

After repeatedly infringing Eksmo’s rights, the Moscow City Court handed down an order which instructs local ISPs to block RuTracker, forever. The site is currently still accessible in Russia and will remain so for at least the next 30 days, a period in which the site will have an opportunity to consider its options.

On the one hand RuTracker could appeal the decision, although considering the polling of its users on the music matter and the desire of the majority not to delete torrents, that seems unlikely. On the other it has a month to train its Russian users on how to access the site after a blockade, whether that’s through Tor, VPNs, proxies, or other similar tools.

Not only does the latter seem more likely, RuTracker has just made a historic move which will allow new users of the site, wherever they may be, to access it much more easily.

Previously, users needed an account to use the site, which wasn’t really a problem for those who can speak Russian. However, RuTracker has now removed the need to sign up, meaning that anyone with a browser and Google translate can easily find content in the site’s forums and download it by clicking on a link.

For now unregistered users can only download via magnet links but with users of most torrent sites already prepared with a compatible client, that’s unlikely to provide much of an obstacle.

Even more simply, RuTracker’s forums are all indexed by Google and since the titles of English language content appear in English, a “site:rutracker.org” search is an extremely easy option.

Add this to the fact that Google receives relatively few takedown requests for the domain, RuTracker could quickly gain more popularity outside Russia. That is not what the book publishers or major record companies had in mind when they pressed for a national and permanent blockade against this enduring torrent site.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Der seit April 2013 andauernde Arbeitskampf bei Amazon geht weiter. Heute legen Beschäftigte in Bad Hersfeld die Arbeit nieder. (Amazon, Verdi)

Unkaputtbar geht zwar nicht. Aber um im All jahrelang funktionieren zu können, müssen Bauteile wie Prozessoren und Arbeitsspeicher einer Raumsonde aufwendig entwickelt werden - jahrzehntelang. (New Horizons, Prozessor)

Flieg mal ein Objekt: Kanadische Forscher haben ein Display entwickelt, das aus Drohnen besteht. Diese stellen Inhalte im Raum dar, mit denen der Nutzer interagieren kann. Die Auflösung ist aber noch verbesserungswürdig. (Drohne, Display)

Die Crackas With Attitude haben wieder zugeschlagen: Die Hacker, die bereits den E-Mail-Account von CIA-Direktor John Brennann geknackt haben wollen, haben jetzt zahlreiche angebliche Details über US-Agenten und Polizisten veröffentlicht. Als Grund für den Hack gaben sie die US-Politik gegenüber Israel an. (Hacker, Twitter)

Gut einen Monat nach Veröffentlichung von Android 6.0 alias Marshmallow liegt dessen Anteil bei 0,3 Prozent. Mit der Auslieferung der neuen Nexus-Geräte und weiterer neuer Smartphones dürfte dieser Anteil steigen. (Android, Google Play)

Ericsson und Cisco wollen Patente austauschen und Produkte gemeinsam vermarkten. Es geht um 5G, Cloud, Internet of Things und auch gänzlich neue Netzwerkprodukte. (Cisco, Netzwerk)

Wieder mal macht die PC-Version eines Spiels auf vielen Systemen größere Schwierigkeiten: Black Ops 3 stürzt bei vielen Nutzern ab oder ruckelt stark. Ein erster Patch ist verfügbar. (Black Ops 3, Call of Duty)

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Ant Man is the most downloaded movie.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

Ranking	(last week)	Movie	IMDb Rating / Trailer
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1	(…)	Ant-Man (Webrip)	7.7 / trailer
2	(1)	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	7.5 / trailer
3	(2)	Inside Out	8.4 / trailer
4	(…)	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (Subbed HDrip)	6.8 / trailer
5	(4)	Everest (Subbed HDRip)	7.3 / trailer
6	(…)	The Assassin	6.8 / trailer
7	(5)	No Escape	6.9 / trailer
8	(3)	Hitman Agent 47 (HDRip)	5.9 / trailer
9	(7)	Minions	6.5 / trailer
10	(6)	Southpaw	7.6 / trailer

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.