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People all around the world are unable to access the most visited torrent site since a few hours.

The site is suffering from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack and has been hard to reach.

As a result, all official KAT proxies are suffering downtime as well.

The KAT team confirmed to TorrentFreak that attack is targeted at the site’s DNS servers and they are doing their best to solve the issue.

The DDoS attack is not new and also caused a brief outage yesterday and earlier in the week. The site has managed to come back a few times, but it appears that the problems still persist.

KAT down

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

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Die über Werbung finanzierten Radiosender von iTunes werden bald eingestellt. Nur ein kostenloser Radiosender von Apple bleibt bestehen, der nicht jeden Geschmack trifft. Andere Apple-Sender sind nur mit einem Abonnement von Apple Music erreichbar. Auch die iAd-Plattform verschwindet größtenteils. (iTunes Match, Apple)

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Immer mehr Flugzeuge sind mit WLAN ausgestattet. Hier tut sich vor allem die Lufthansa mit ihrer Langstreckenflotte hervor, wie aus einer Statistik von Routehappy hervorgeht. Aber auch Aeroflot, Garuda Indonesia und United bieten häufig WLAN. Kurze Flüge mit WLAN an Bord sind aber selten. (Internet im Flugzeug, WLAN)

Microsoft hat eine Einschränkung für Nutzer von Windows 7 und Windows 8.1 angekündigt. Der Support für die Betriebssysteme wird für Intels Core-i-Prozessoren der 6. Generation und neuer nicht mehr lange aufrechterhalten. Anwender sollen auf Windows 10 aktualisieren. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

The Institute for Development of the Internet is an entity created to promote discussion between representatives of the Russian government and Internet-focused companies. Typically the platform is used to iron out differences on contentious issues.

In February 2015 Herman Klimenko became chairman of the Institute but last December was called upon by Russian president Vladimir Putin to become his personal adviser on the development of the Internet. After consulting with his family on what he described as a “big decision”, the 49-year-old accepted Putin’s offer.

This week Putin signed a decree that officially enlisted Klimenko as his
Presidential Adviser on the Internet. It’s a big position for the expert who now has the ear of one of the world’s most powerful men on all Internet related matters from trade through to education and finance.

Not unexpectedly the Internet piracy controversy also falls within Klimenko’s remit and it didn’t take long for the newly-crowned heavyweight to weigh in with his opinions. Surprisingly, those opinions include pouring cold water on aggressive measures for dealing with piracy, website blockades for example.

Speaking with local TV channel Russia 24, Klimenko said that when copyright holders demanded that ‘pirate’ websites should be blocked on a permanent basis, none considered whether it would actually be possible.

“When rights holders pressed for measures such as eternal blocking, I think they did not consider that it would be unfeasible for technical reasons,” he said.

“If a method to carry out such blocking did exist, it’s another question whether it is necessary to use it or not.”

But while website blocking is a controversial issue that even some copyright holders don’t believe in, it’s likely that a few eyebrows would’ve been raised at Klimenko’s suggestion that aggressive anti-piracy measures should be aligned with the state of the economy.

While acknowledging that creators should be able to get a return on their products, Putin’s adviser said now might not be the right time to send in the heavies to “terrorize” the public on the matter.

“There is always the relevance of this issue,” he said.

“In fact, consumption of copyright content increases with economic growth, and when the situation is very serious, I think people do not have to unnecessarily terrorize these issues,” said the presidential adviser.

Turning to copyright holders, Klimenko said that he believes they should consider the economic conditions before demanding more action.

“Pushing hard now on this topic, I think, is not worth it. When the economy improves, you should return to this issue,” he said.

But with relations with the West still strained over Ukraine and all the financial pressures that brings, how long will copyright holders have to wait? According to Deputy Minister of Economic Development Oleg Fomichev, perhaps some time yet.

“The current economic situation is definitely not that good. The Russian economy is not in the best shape, but it is not as bad as it was expected one year ago,” he revealed this week.

“We are now relatively optimistic about economic dynamics for the next several months and the next year because we see from June, and more positively from September, we see an upturn in the Russian economy.”

So everyone will stop complaining about piracy until the fall then? Not a chance…..

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

Lenovo gibt Microsoft die Schuld daran, dass 2015 so wenige Leute PCs gekauft haben. Private Nachrichten während der Arbeitszeit können zur Kündigung führen. Und Googles autonome Autos brauchen doch noch ihre Fahrer. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Instant Messenger)

Despite many complaints from some in the music industry about Spotify's low royalty payments, music labels are actually coming out ahead thanks to free music streaming, a study has found.

The paper, which was presented at the annual general meeting of the American Economic Association last week, is written by the EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC), specifically looking at the effect that music streaming has had on music industry. The paper examines the effect streaming has had on music revenue, focusing in particular on Spotify and Pandora, and its conclusions are very different from the ones espoused by some in the music industry.

Far from the low royalty rates from Spotify cannibalising music sales and reducing the revenue for labels and artists a like, the study found that at its worst, Spotify appears to be a revenue-neutral prospect for the music industry.

Instead of killing music sales on a large scale thanks to ad-supported free streaming, only one sale is affected for every 137 listens of the free streamed track, at an estimated loss of USD $0.82. But each of these 137 streams also earns the music industry 0.7 cents (for a total of $0.96), meaning the music industry actually comes out ahead.

This is because Spotify, as the researchers found, did not affect the habits of those who buy music, and instead, offers those that don't buy music (for example, music pirates) a way to contribute without having to spend their own money.

And all of this is not including the indirect promotional effect Spotify and Pandora has, with research suggesting songs played or streamed via these services have better sales than songs that don't get "airtime".

So it appears Spotify not only does not compete directly with music sales, it supplements sales and gives the music industry with another way to "sell" its music.