Apples Assistenzsystem Siri soll ohne Erlaubnis Patente eines anderen Unternehmens verwenden. In den USA wurde Klage gegen Apple eingereicht. Der Patentinhaber fordert Schadensersatz in nicht genannter Höhe. (Siri, Apple) 
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Fortinet: Mehr Hintertüren, mehr Patches
Erst in der vergangenen Woche war bekanntgeworden, dass einige Fortinet-Firewall-Produkte einen Zugang mit Standardpasswörtern ermöglichen. Jetzt hat das Unternehmen seine eigenen Produkte analysiert – und weitere verwundbare Geräte gefunden. (Backdoor, Fernwartung) 
Erst in der vergangenen Woche war bekanntgeworden, dass einige Fortinet-Firewall-Produkte einen Zugang mit Standardpasswörtern ermöglichen. Jetzt hat das Unternehmen seine eigenen Produkte analysiert - und weitere verwundbare Geräte gefunden. (Backdoor, Fernwartung) Airbus 320neo: Energiesparende Flugzeuge für die Lufthansa
Die Lufthansa hat den ersten Airbus 320neo bekommen. Er soll mehr Passagiere mit weniger Treibstoff über längere Strecken transportieren. (Kernel: Linux 4.5-rc1 wertet AMDGPU mit Powerplay auf
Linus Torvalds hat die erste Vorversion der für Mitte März erwarteten Version 4.5 des Linux-Kernels freigegeben. Sie stattet AMDs vereinigten AMDGPU-Treiber mit Unterstützung für Powerplay aus. Das Raspberry Pi soll 3D-Funktionalität erhalten. (Linux-Kernel, Intel) 
Linus Torvalds hat die erste Vorversion der für Mitte März erwarteten Version 4.5 des Linux-Kernels freigegeben. Sie stattet AMDs vereinigten AMDGPU-Treiber mit Unterstützung für Powerplay aus. Das Raspberry Pi soll 3D-Funktionalität erhalten. (Linux-Kernel, Intel) EFF Warns against Calls for ‘Filter-Everything’ Approach
Digital freedom advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has come out against the adoption of a “take down, stay down” system, warning that it will lead to a “filter-everything” approach.The U.S. Government’s Copyright Office is current …
Digital freedom advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has come out against the adoption of a "take down, stay down" system, warning that it will lead to a "filter-everything" approach.
The U.S. Government's Copyright Office is current seeking public consultation on how it can change existing digital copyright laws to satisfy today's needs, and some rights-holders have called for a "take down, stay down" approach to copyright enforcement.
Under the current DMCA laws, it is up to rights-holders to provide URLs to Internet service provider such as Google for removal. The same piece of content, such as a unique music track, often has multiple URLs, sometimes thousands of them, but under the current approach rights-holders have to submit each URL for service providers to remove.
While rights-holders can submit multiple URLs per DMCA take-down requests, and despite Google removing more than 1,500 URLs per minute, new URLs will usually pop-up faster than they can be taken down. Is this because of this, rights-holders have called for a new approach.
Under the "take down, stay down" approach, rights-holders only have to identify the unique piece of work (Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself', for example), and it's up to service providers to search and destroy all URLs, new and old, for the content.
With good reason, service providers are wary of this approach, as they predict this will make them ultimately responsible for policing content, and at their own expense. The EFF agrees with this prediction.
"Filter-everything would effectively shift the burden of policing copyright infringement to the platforms themselves, undermining the purpose of the safe harbor in the first place," the EFF's Elliot Harmon warns.
If service providers are tasked with "take down, stay down", automated scanning tools will be a necessity to deal with the millions of pieces content and even more URLs that needs to be processed. This, the EFF says, is also a red flag, as automated tools, or "copyright bots", are notorious for being inaccurate.
“Here’s something else to consider about copyright bots: they’re not very good. Content ID routinely flags videos as infringement that don’t copy from another work at all. Bots also don’t understand the complexities of fair use. In September, a federal appeals court confirmed that copyright holders must consider fair use before sending a takedown notice. Under the filter-everything approach, legitimate uses of works wouldn’t get the reasonable consideration they deserve. Even if content-recognizing technology were airtight, computers would still not be able to consider a work’s fair use status." Harmon adds.
The biggest worry, according to Harmon, is how such a system might be abused by rights-holders to silence critics en masse.
"You don’t need to look far to find examples of copyright holders abusing the system, silencing speech with dubious copyright claims," says Harmon.
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 01/25/16
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Spectre.’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Big Short’ ‘The Revenant’ completes the top three.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
This week we have two newcomers in our chart.
Spectre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (2) | Spectre | 7.9 / trailer |
| 2 | (1) | The Big Short (DVDscr) | 8.1 / trailer |
| 3 | (3) | The Revenant (DVDscr) | ?.? / trailer |
| 4 | (5) | The Intern | 7.4 / trailer |
| 5 | (7) | Black Mass (Web-DL) | 7.1 / trailer |
| 6 | (6) | The Martian | 8.2 / trailer |
| 7 | (…) | The Veil | 5.0 / trailer |
| 8 | (4) | Bridge of Spies | 7.9 / trailer |
| 9 | (9) | The Last Witch Hunter (WEB-DL) | 6.0 / trailer |
| 10 | (…) | Legend | 7.1 / trailer |
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Kindle: Warnhinweise bei E- Books mit Rechtschreibfehlern
Amazon will zur Qualitätsverbesserung E-Books mit vielen Rechtschreibfehlern künftig mit einem Warnhinweis versehen. Kommen Formatierungsfehler hinzu, könnten die E-Books aus dem Kindle-Shop fliegen. (Connected Watch: TAG Heuer will nächstes Jahr 200.000 Smartwatches herstellen
Als der Schweizer Luxusuhrenhersteller TAG Heuer Ende 2015 seine erste Smartwatch Connected Watch vorstellte, bezweifelten viele, dass sich davon hohe Stückzahlen verkaufen ließen. Das war offenbar ein Irrtum, wie Unternehmenschef Jean-Claude Biver mitteilte. (Smartwatch, Mobil) 
Als der Schweizer Luxusuhrenhersteller TAG Heuer Ende 2015 seine erste Smartwatch Connected Watch vorstellte, bezweifelten viele, dass sich davon hohe Stückzahlen verkaufen ließen. Das war offenbar ein Irrtum, wie Unternehmenschef Jean-Claude Biver mitteilte. (Smartwatch, Mobil) New York: Samsung eröffnet VR-Filmstudio
Samsung will die Produktion von neuem Virtual-Reality-Material fördern und eröffnet dazu in New York ein eigenes Filmstudio. Das kündigte Samsung auf dem Sundance Film Festival in den USA an. (Federal Trade Commission now probing Turing’s notorious drug pricing
Lawyers for former CEO, Shkreli, cite probe as reason he’ll invoke 5th to Congress.
Turing Pharmaceutical’s dramatic and rage-inducing decision to jack up the price of a life-saving drug, Daraprim, by more than 5,000 percent is now under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, according to a lawyer for the pharmaceutical company’s now former CEO, Martin Shkreli.
Shkreli’s lawyer, Baruch Weiss, disclosed the FTC investigation in a letter to the US House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which had subpoenaed Shkreli to appear in a January 26 hearing to discuss the same price hike. Weiss cited the FTC probe as the reason that Shkreli would refuse to answer the committee’s questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, according to Reuters, who broke the story and saw the letter.
In the letter, Weiss wrote that Shkreli would "gladly cooperate" with the House committee if it granted Shkreli immunity. However, such immunity, if granted, would unlikely be granted in time for next Tuesday’s hearing.
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