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Aus Brandenburg kommt ein Fahrradschloss, an dem sich Diebe die Zähne ausbeißen sollen. Das über Kickstarter finanzierte Fahrradschloss "I lock it" wird über Bluetooth bedient und öffnet sich selbstständig, wenn der Benutzer in die Nähe kommt. (Kickstarter, Bluetooth)

Der umstrittene Nest-Chef Tony Fadell ist zurückgetreten. Die zu Google gehörende Firma ist ist vor allem für ihren selbstlernenden Heizungsregler mit Internet-Anbindung bekannt - und Fadell für seine kompromisslosen Managementmethoden. (Alphabet, Google)

Nach monatelangem Streit haben sich Koalition und Opposition geeinigt. Der NSA-Ausschuss darf sich genauer mit den unzulässigen BND-Selektoren befassen. (NSA, DE-CIX)

A new study funded by the MPAA has found that the major studios' own actions may be responsible for increased piracy and lost sales.

Release delays are often unavoidable, due to localization issues, but much of the time, they are artificially introduced in order to maximize revenues at movie theaters.

But the Carnegie Mellon University’s Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics carried out the study based real-world data, and found that a longer release delay actually correlates to drop in DVD sales.

"Our results suggest that an additional 10-day delay between the availability of digital piracy and the legitimate DVD release date in a particular country is correlated with a 2-3% reduction in DVD sales in that country," writes the researchers.

Diving further into the data, the researchers then find that the size of the sales reduction actually correlates to that country's piracy level.

For example, in Spain and Italy where piracy levels are higher, the corresponding sales drops were higher too.

"When we run our regressions on Spain and Italy alone, we observe a 10% drop in sales for every 10-day delay in legal availability, as compared to a 2% drop in sales for every 10-day delay in the entire sample," the study found.

In conclusion, the researchers suggests studios do away with release delays whenever possible.

"Our results suggest that studios and exhibitors should reconsider delayed international movie releases in the presence of global piracy," the researchers concluded.

Der bekannte Hacker und Aktivist Jacob Appelbaum ist kein Angestellter des Tor-Projektes mehr. Gegen ihn werden schwere Anschuldigungen erhoben. Das Tor-Projekt hat eine Anwaltskanzlei engagiert, um den Sachverhalt aufzuklären. (TOR-Netzwerk, Internet)

In an effort to combat piracy, copyright holders report millions of infringing links to Google on a daily basis.

Due to the high number of often automated notices and the fact that copyright holders don’t always check the validity of all requests, mistakes are a common occurrence.

An occasional mishap is understandable, of course, but this week we stumbled upon one of the worst series of takedown notices we have ever seen.

Over the course of a few days reporting organization Copyright UNIVERSAL asked Google to remove thousands of links from its search engine. In their listing we do indeed see some infringing URLs, but it’s the legal content that really stands out.

In fact, it is safe to say that no website is safe for the overzealous anti-piracy group.

Over the past week Copyright UNIVERSAL has asked Google to remove 4,224 URLs including various high profile sites. While we don’t have room to highlight all ‘mistakes,’ we’ve made a selection of some of the most outrageous errors.

Let’s start off with the MPAA, a fellow anti-piracy group which has called on Google to make sure that reported URLs remain offline. According to a recent notice from Copyright UNIVERSAL, their ratings page is clearly infringing.

The same is true for legal offerings from movie stores and streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon and Apple’s iTunes.

According to the notices, Google’s very own Play store is also copyright infringing.

In fact, even Hulu’s original series are not safe from the overactive anti-piracy group’s recent takedown spree.

But that’s just the beginning. Various Internet providers including Comcast, Verizon and Cox also offer entertainment online. This is not permitted according to Copyright UNIVERSAL which is targeting the respective sites in various takedown notices.

Then there are offline film broadcasting outlets, commonly known as movie theaters. These generally have a good relationship with copyright holders, but that doesn’t mean they can stay online.

The Copyright UNIVERSAL notices target several cinemas including the homepages of AMC Theaters and Vox Cinemas, as shown below.

The same is true for film rating sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, which are both targeted in several requests.

Turning it up a notch, the anti-piracy group is also cracking down on sports leagues, as both the NBA and NFL sites are targeted.

And what about the official movie homepage for The Huntsman: Winter’s War, tucked in between several news articles and other legitimate sites such as the Verge, The Age, The Australian and The Sun.

The list goes on and on and on….

After keeping a close eye on DMCA takedown mistakes over the past several years, these are by far the worst. Keep in mind that the above is just a small selection of all the inaccuracies, which can be found in full here.

Unfortunately it is not clear on whose authority Universal COPYRIGHT is acting. The sloppy anti-piracy outfit reportedly operates from India but that’s pretty much all we know at this point.

TorrentFreak reached out to Google, who said they would look into the matter, but we haven’t heard back since.

The good news is that thanks to Google’s sharp eye none of the inaccurately reported links have been removed. So even if Copyright UNIVERSAL continues its crusade against pretty much the entire Internet, it’s unlikely that it will succeed.

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

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Intel’s Apollo Lake processors are set to hit the streets in the second half of 2016. They’re low-power, low-cost chips aimed at laptops, 2-in-1 tablets, and some desktop computers, and they’re the follow-up to the Intel “Braswell” processors we’ve been seeing over the past year in devices like Chromebooks, cheap Windows laptops, and mini-desktops.

So what’s the difference between Apollo Lake on Braswell? A few months ago Intel told us the new chips would offer better performance and efficiency.

Continue reading Intel Apollo Lake chips to offer 30 percent performance boost over Braswell at Liliputing.