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Die erste Spur einer Datenautobahn für Satelliten ist gelegt. Von Baikonur aus startete eine Relaisstation erfolgreich zu ihrer geostationären Umlaufbahn. (Satelliten, Technologie)

Der Leiter der NSA-Elitehacker TAO erklärt bei einem seiner seltenen öffentlichen Auftritte, wie man als Netzwerk-Admin seinem Team das Leben schwermacht. (NSA, Firefox)

Last December, Aurous developer Andrew Sampson settled his legal dispute with the RIAA for a massive $3 million, according to the legal paperwork.

The legal trouble also affected another popular project Sampson ran, the torrent search engine Strike. While it was not specifically mentioned in the settlement agreement the Florida-based developer decided to pull the plug on this project too.

While the site has been offline for weeks, interest in the project hardly waned. Sampson informs TorrentFreak that over a million visitors still landed on the site, which served pages cached by CloudFlare. In addition, many external services called on the site’s defunct API.

This prompted the developer to make the code available for others, releasing it under an open source license.

“I don’t want to leave thousands of developers hanging; the API received over 25,000,000 unique requests a month, not to mention the millions of unique users we received every month,” Sampson tells us.

“I wanted to leave something, it may not be the prettiest thing, but the least I can do is extend an olive branch and give people a small tool set for hosting their own search engines.”

With the code anyone can set up a custom torrent search engine, replicating the Strike service. The only thing that’s missing are the actual torrent scrapers. After consulting his lawyers, Sampson decided not to make those public.

The past few weeks have been rough for the developer, who says he suffered mentally from his run-in with the RIAA.

“After dealing with this lawsuit I’m a bit taxed mentally, I hit a really low point for a while, depression kind of overwhelmed me, I lost a decade long friendship, a lot of my savings, I just became kind of bitter and angry,” Sampson notes.

However, he’s slowly starting to get a grip on reality again and is looking forward to working on new projects. While he still has a healthy interest in P2P and BitTorrent, he will stay away from anything remotely infringing.

“I’d much rather focus my energy on work and building open source tools that don’t cross grey lines. It is a lot less stressful and feels great.”

The release of Strike’s source code offers the developer the closure he needs, so he can move on to other things.

Currently he’s working on a new project called Ulterius. This is an open source C# based framework that allows users to manage windows based systems from any HTML5 enabled browser.

“I received a lot of support from the community during this, I can only hope they like what I make next. I’m 20 years old, so I’m just getting started,” he concludes.

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

Dass Apple sich stark für 3D-Brillen interessiert, ist ein offenes Geheimnis. Die Entwicklungen sind angeblich schon weit fortgeschritten. (Head-Mounted Display, Display)

Die Urheber des Hackerangriffs auf den Bundestag stehen immer noch nicht fest. Nun wird spekuliert, ob die Attacke zum "Propagandakrieg" des Kreml gegen den Westen gehört. (Bundestags-Hack, Phishing)

In this episode we’re joined by Washington Sanchez, co-founder of P2P marketplace Open Bazaar, and Angel Leon, founder of popular torrent client Frostwire and OpenBazaar contributor.

This week we discuss Netflix and the use of VPNs by its content-hungry customers to evade geoblocking; the increasingly businesslike and quite possibly criminal vibe from some large torrent sites; and the fact that Vladimir Putin’s Internet Adviser is running a filesharing site.

Finally, we delve into how Open Bazaar is creating a peer-to-peer network that will put the “d” in “decommerce”.

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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

Guests: Washington Sanchez and Angel Leon.

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

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

3D Realms hat mal wieder ein Spiel veröffentlicht: In Bombshell kämpft eine Sprengstoffexpertin mit Hightech-Armprothese gegen außerirdische Invasoren. Eigentlich war diese Hauptrolle für Duke Nukem gedacht - viel verpasst hat der Muskelprotz aber nicht. (3D Realms, Spieletest)

Facebook hat mehr Kunden, Apple verkauft weniger iPhones und der Computer hat eine menschliche Domäne mehr erobert: Das Go-Spiel. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, CUDA)

A free music listening platform that combines the best of YouTube music and Spotify has temporarily suspended services only two weeks after launch.

The platform, called Wefre, provided a Spotify like interface, but sources all music from legally uploaded YouTube music videos, allowing users to enjoy music streaming without having to pay for it, or to use YouTube's interface.

But two weeks after launch, and some 16,000 new user sign-ups, the people behind the start-up has called it quits, for now, blaming the platform's surging popularity, and the legal cloud hanging over the service.

The legal cloud exists because WeFre allows users to listen to YouTube music videos without the video part being shown, which may be a violation of YouTube's terms of service. In addition, the license holders that uploaded these music videos legally would most likely disagree with how it is being used on WeFre, with little or no revenue being generated and passed onto them.

The creators of the site were keen to point out that they had not received any legal threats so far in regards to the site, they have decided to take the more cautions approach and suspend all services until an unspecified time.

And while WeFre's legal status questionable, it's popularity isn't. The Spotify-like interface over YouTube music videos is a huge hit with users, but it also became a huge hit on server resources, with the operators of the site unable to keep it running smoothly, further adding to the need to close the site, for now. 

"We will ensure that we don't broke any law and we will come back with new features, stronger and without technical problems," a post on the website now reads.

While the above statement appears to be quite definitive, WeFre's future is most likely in serious doubt, as neither YouTube, nor rights-holders, or even Spotify (due to the site's uncanny resemblance to Spotify's), will be happy to see WeFre prosper. At their expense, they might say.

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