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Rise of the Tomb Raider: PC-Lara erscheint bereits im Januar 2016

Die Konsolenexklusivität ist kürzer als gedacht: Bereits im Januar 2016 soll Rise of the Tomb Raider für Windows-PC erscheinen. Bislang ist das jüngste Abenteuer von Lara Croft nur für die Xbox One verfügbar. (Tomb Raider, Xbox 360)

Comcast: Kabelnetzbetreiber beginnt mit 1 GBit/s für Endkunden

Einer der ersten TV-Kabelnetzbetreiber hat bewiesen, dass Docsis 3.1 in existierenden Netzen funktioniert und eine Datenrate von 1 GBit/s ermöglicht. Bis Endes des Jahres 2016 ist der Rollout im Massenmarkt geplant. (Kabelnetz, Telekommunikation)

Onlinehandel: Politische Initiative für den Weiterverkauf von E-Books

Papierbücher können weiterverkauft werden, E-Books nicht: Gegen diesen Unterschied will die Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen vorgehen. Justizminister Thomas Kutschaty kündigt eine Initiative im Bundesrat an. (E-Book, Urheberrecht)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 12/28/15

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘The Martian.’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Revenant’ ‘The Hateful Eight’ completes the top three.

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

martian This week we have four newcomers in our chart.

The Martian 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.

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Ranking	(last week)	Movie	IMDb Rating / Trailer
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1	(4)	The Martian (Web-DL / Subbed HDRip)	8.2 / trailer
2	(5)	The Revenant (DVDscr)	?.? / trailer
3	(10)	The Hateful Eight (DVDscr)	9.1 / trailer
4	(9)	Creed (DVDscr)	8.2 / trailer
5	(…)	Bridge of Spies (DVDscr)	7.9 / trailer
6	(…)	Legend (DVDscr)	7.3 / trailer
7	(…)	Spectre (DVDscr)	7.1 / trailer
8	(1)	The Intern (Web-DL)	7.4 / trailer
9	(2)	The Peanuts Movie (DVDscr)	7.7 / trailer
10	(…)	In The Heart of The Sea (DVDscr)	7.1 / trailer

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

Festnetzausbau 2015: Nutzer wollen Glasfaser, nehmen aber auch Vectoring

Schnelle Vectoring-Anschlüsse: Die Nutzer wollen sie, wenn sie schon kein Glasfaser kriegen. Doch die Branche streitet sich weiter über exklusive Rechte am Hauptverteiler. (Glasfaser, DSL)

uTorrent Has Banned ‘Sexy’ NSFW Ads This Year, And More

The team behind the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has released an overview of its accomplishments this year. Aside from fixing critical vulnerabilities and all sorts of technical issues, there have been several changes on the monetization front. Most notably, uTorrent has decided to ban ‘Russian brides’ and other NSFW banners.

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

With more than 150 million active users a month uTorrent remains the leading torrent client.

While the software hasn’t seen any major overhauls this year, the team behind the software has not been idle. This week uTorrent’s director of product management, Jordy Berson, gave an overview of their accomplishments.

Living up to its ‘micro’ name Berson says that uTorrent has shrunk in size, again. At the same time, however, the team was quick to respond to a critical DDoS vulnerability reported by researchers a few months ago.

“µTorrent got smaller and more efficient. µTorrent developers were on the front lines of addressing security vulnerabilities identified for the wider libutp-based community,” Berson writes.

The uTorrent team also reports a dramatic decrease in crash rates as well as other fixes and smaller updates.

“We improved stability and performance with a series of changes that further reduced crash rates. We fixed bugs when they appeared and tweaked the small features you asked us to address.”

The graph below shows a 50 percent decrease in the number of application crashes when comparing the old and new stable releases.

uTorrent crash rates

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Several other updates and improvements have also been made on the monetization size of the application. Earlier we reported that the popular BitTorrent client serves billions of ads per month.

However, the hated and loved NSFW variants were dropped this year.

utorrentdate “While some may miss these ads, we’ve raised our ad standards for our advertisers to deliver higher-quality safe-for-work ads,” Berson notes.

In addition to banner advertising the uTorrent client also generates revenue through bundled software, and the team has made several improvements on this end as well. This likely means avoiding another Bitcoin miner fiasco.

The uTorrent team is very conscious of how its monetizing strategies are perceived by the public and recently announced the exploration of alternative options, including direct financial support from users. These and other SFW changes appear to be still on the table for 2016.

“There have been some baby steps and some bolder steps. But we’ve done it all with our users in mind and we’ll continue in this direction throughout 2016,” Berson concludes.

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

Schummelsoftware analysiert: Wie Bosch und VW die Dieselautos manipulierten

Die Abgasreduzierung bei Dieselautos ist ein sehr komplexer Prozess. Per Reverse Engineering demonstriert ein Hacker, wie VW und Bosch gemeinsam die Abgastests austricksten. (Auto, VW)

‘Game of Thrones’ Most Pirated TV-Show of 2015

For the fourth year in a row Game of Thrones has taken the crown for the most pirated TV-show on the Internet. The Walking Dead is firmly in second place, followed by The Big Bang Theory.

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

got5 Game of Thrones has the honor of becoming the most downloaded TV-show for the fourth year in a row.

With an estimated 14.4 million downloads via BitTorrent, the 2015 season finale has beaten the competition by a landslide.

More than half of the downloads occurred in the first week after the show aired and the total exceeds the number of traditional viewers in the US. The Walking Dead and Big Bang Theory complete the top three with an estimated 6.9 and 4.4 million downloads respectively.

Pirates have shown an increase in interest for higher quality releases compared to earlier years. However, the lower quality 480p copies of TV-shows remain by far the most popular among downloaders, followed by 720p and 1080p respectively.

Game of Thrones’ top listing doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Earlier this year it broke an all-time piracy record when more than 258,131 peers shared the same torrent file simultaneously.

Overall there is no sign that TV-show piracy is declining, on the contrary. The download numbers for the most popular shows continues to rise, sometimes exceeding the number of traditional viewers in the US.

Below we have compiled a list of the most downloaded TV-shows worldwide (single episode) for 2015, together with the traditional ratings in the US. The download numbers are estimated by TorrentFreak based on several sources, including statistics reported by public BitTorrent trackers.

Online streaming and downloads for file-hosting services are not included since there are no public sources to draw data from. Total piracy numbers will therefore be significantly higher.

Most downloaded TV-shows on BitTorrent, 2015
rank	show	est. downloads	est. US TV viewers
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1	Game of Thrones	14,400,000	8,110,000
2	The Walking Dead	6,900,000	15,780,000
3	The Big Bang Theory	4,400,000	18,300,000
4	Arrow	3,900,000	3,920,000
5	The Flash	3,600,000	4,010,000
6	Mr. Robot	3,500,000	1,750,000
7	Vikings	3,300,000	5,010,000
8	Supergirl	3,000,000	12,960,000
9	The Blacklist	2,900,000	10,110,000
10	Suits	2,600,000	2,380,000

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

The best video games of 2015, as picked by the Ars editors

From epic quests to entirely new sports, 2015 was packed with gaming gems.

Before we get on with the list, I want to make sure you don’t miss this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes. You can win one of over 100 prizes, including limited edition gaming collectibles, all while helping out a good cause. Entries are due by January 4, so check it out if you haven’t already, and thanks in advance for your donation.

Narrowing an entire year of video games into a list of the 20 titles most worth your attention is always difficult, but it was more difficult than usual in 2015. We could have easily extended this year's list to 30 or 40 games without breaking a sweat or recommending any marginal titles (see our upcoming "best of the rest" list as proof).

The year was just that jam-packed with quality titles. Perhaps that's because the new generation of consoles is finally coming into its own, or because a number of independent developers surprised us with highly polished and utterly unique titles. Whatever the reason, we hope 2016 can capture even a fraction of the joy and variety found in this year's best games.

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Aliens, bunny-killing rovers, and a Moon base: What all is NASA “hiding”?

Ars investigates the murky world of conspiracy theory to see what NASA hid in 2015.

Screen capture of YouTube video showing "mysterious" pink object spotted by an International Space Station camera. (credit: YouTube )

Spend any time around NASA public affairs specialists, as I do, and you'll eventually get the eye roll. It comes when someone inquires about aliens or faked moon landings or all manner of other nonsense. One of the more recent eye-rollers originated in Russia, where officials said sea plankton was growing on the exterior of the International Space Station. (It wasn't.)

"If you think that's bad, you should Google 'NASA hiding,'" one space agency official told me. So I did—and here are the first five things I found.

1. Aliens in space!

The first search result is a Gawker story from August, which links to a YouTube video of space station footage showing a "pink spot" near the orbiting laboratory. The Gawker author had some fun with the story, but plenty of other Web sites treated the object as mysterious, possibly of extra-terrestrial origin.

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