Xiaomi may be one of the fastest-growing smartphone companies in China, but the company doesn’t yet sell its phones in the US. But maybe that’s going to change soon. Last month the Xiaomi Redmi 2 Pro smartphone showed up at the FCC website, and now it’s been joined by Xiaomi Mi 4. While some products submitted […]
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Xiaomi may be one of the fastest-growing smartphone companies in China, but the company doesn’t yet sell its phones in the US. But maybe that’s going to change soon. Last month the Xiaomi Redmi 2 Pro smartphone showed up at the FCC website, and now it’s been joined by Xiaomi Mi 4. While some products submitted […]
Xiaomi Mi 4 hits the FCC… may be coming to America? is a post from: Liliputing
Microsoft hat überraschend das ISO-Image der aktuellen Windows-10-Version 1511 aus dem Media Creation Tool entfernt. Gründe nennt das Unternehmen nicht. Über Windows Update soll die Version noch verfügbar sein. (Windows 10, Microsoft) 
Microsoft hat überraschend das ISO-Image der aktuellen Windows-10-Version 1511 aus dem Media Creation Tool entfernt. Gründe nennt das Unternehmen nicht. Über Windows Update soll die Version noch verfügbar sein. (Windows 10, Microsoft) Der finnische Geräte- und Softwarehersteller Jolla kann 12.000 vorbestellte Tablets nicht verschicken. Das Unternehmen hat finanzielle Schwierigkeiten. (Jolla, Smartphone) 
Der finnische Geräte- und Softwarehersteller Jolla kann 12.000 vorbestellte Tablets nicht verschicken. Das Unternehmen hat finanzielle Schwierigkeiten. (Jolla, Smartphone) Ein T-Shirt, das Herzrhythmusstörungen erkennt, Strümpfe, die ein Signal geben, bevor man stolpert: Ein Erlanger Forscher glaubt, dass solche Technik bald so selbstverständlich sein wird wie Smartphones. Er warnt aber auch vor Gefahren der smarten Kleidungsstücke. (Fraunhofer, Smartphone) 
Ein T-Shirt, das Herzrhythmusstörungen erkennt, Strümpfe, die ein Signal geben, bevor man stolpert: Ein Erlanger Forscher glaubt, dass solche Technik bald so selbstverständlich sein wird wie Smartphones. Er warnt aber auch vor Gefahren der smarten Kleidungsstücke. (Fraunhofer, Smartphone) Adult publisher and copyright troll Perfect 10 bit off more than it could chew when it took on Usenet provider Giganews. After mounting an aggressive copyright lawsuit, Giganews fought back, won its case, and the court landed Perfect 10 with a $5.6m bill. However, eight months later and not a single penny has been paid. Giganews is losing patience.
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Over the course of several years, adult publisher Perfect 10 became less known for its love of women of a certain size and more for its desire to drag companies to court on dubious copyright grounds.
In fact, the company became so litigious that one of its main sources of ‘business’ was the suing of everyone from Google, Amazon, MasterCard and Visa, to RapidShare, Depositfiles and hosting providers LeaseWeb and OVH.
Like most copyright trolls Perfect 10 prefers private settlements since court wins are harder to come by. However, when the adult publisher took on Usenet provider Giganews, a company that was never likely to fold, things went from bad to worse.
In November 2014 a court found that Giganews was not liable for the infringing activities of its customers and in February this year Perfect 10 received its biggest mauling so far, with a court handing Giganews victory and slamming Perfect 10 for the way it conducted its case.
In March 2015 came the icing on the cake, when the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered the publisher to pay Giganews $5.6m in attorney’s fees and costs. However, the battle is not over yet.
According to various court filings in recent weeks, Giganews is having trouble getting money out of Perfect 10. In a request for a writ of execution last month, Giganews’ attorney outlined the situation.
“Judgment for $5,637,352.53 was entered on March 24, 2015 on the docket of the above-entitled action in the U.S. District Court, District of California in favor of Giganews, Inc. and Livewire Services, Inc. as Judgment Creditor, and against Perfect 10, Inc. as Judgment Debtor,” the request reads.
While $5.6m is indeed a large amount, the attorney reveals that in the past eight months Perfect 10 hasn’t paid the Usenet provider a single penny.
Furthermore, as Perfect 10 persists with non-payment the company’s bill is increasing. Although in this case limited to a rate of just 0.25%, Perfect 10 already owes an additional $8,610.03 in accrued interest.
With Giganews running out of patience, on Wednesday District Court Judge Andre Birotte JR granted the company’s request to appoint a process-server to serve a writ of execution on Perfect 10. In the meantime the countdown to another important date begins.
Following an order issued by Judge Jean P. Rosenbluth, Perfect 10 is now ordered to appear before the court December 10 to “furnish information” to aid in enforcement of the money judgment the company is currently ignoring.
“If you fail to appear at the time and place specified in this order, you may be subject to arrest and punishment for contempt of court and the court may make an order requiring you to pay the reasonable attorney fees incurred by the judgment creditor in this proceeding,” the order reads.
Whether Perfect 10’s days as a going concern are numbered remains to be seen, but it’s trolling activities in the United States are certainly on life support following the company’s disastrous campaign against Giganews. Should the company launch a similar action in the future, Judge Andre Birotte Jr’s assessment of its business will almost certainly come back to haunt.
“Perfect 10’s undisputed conduct in this action has been inconsistent with a party interested in protecting its copyrights,” the Judge wrote.
“All of the evidence before the Court demonstrates that Perfect 10 is in the business of litigation, not protecting its copyrights or ‘stimulat[ing] artistic creativity for the general public good’.”
Then again, no one ever doubted that.
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From the old results of a new study to the new format’s old movies, read this and other news stories for the week ending 22 November 2015
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From the old results of a new study to the new format's old movies, read this and other news stories for the week ending 22 November 2015
A few days ago several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline. Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen had their domain names taken away after Elsevier beat them in court. However, the site’s operators are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.
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Last month a New York District Court issued a preliminary injunction against several sites that provide unauthorized access to academic journals.
As a result the operators were ordered to quit offering access to any Elsevier content and the associated registries had to suspend their domain names.
After a few days the registries did indeed disable the domain names mentioned in the lawsuit which are currently all unavailable, much to the disappointment of the sites’ users.
However, the operators of Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen have no intention of complying with the U.S. court order. Instead, they’re rendering the domain suspensions ineffective by switching to several new ones.
At the time of writing LibGen is readily available again via several alternative domains. Except from a new URL, not much has changed and the site is fully operational. Similarly, BookFi is also accessible via various domains including Bookfi.info.
The same is true for Sci-Hub, which changed its address to a .io domain. TF spoke with the site’s operator, Alexandra Elbakyan, who confirmed the move and is still hopeful that she can get the original domain back.
“Several new domains are operating already,” Elbakyan says. “For some reason, I think that in future justice will prevail and all our domains will be unblocked.”
To make sure that the site remains accessible, Sci-Hub also added an .onion address which allows users to access the site via Tor, and bypass any future domain name suspensions.
Despite the domain problems and a disappointing court order, Elbakyan is glad that the case brought attention to the paywall problems academia faces.
“In some sense, this case was helpful: more people now agree that copyright should be destroyed, and that academic publishing needs serious reform,” Sci-Hub’s operator says.
“Before, many people would say: why bother acting against copyright laws if they can be so easily bypassed? Or what is the point in an open access movement if anyone can download any paid article for free?”
Elsevier may have the law on their side, but the largest academic publisher can’t count on universal support from the academic community.
In recent weeks many scientists and scholars have come out in support of Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen, arguing that access to academic research should be free and universal.
For Elbakyan and others this support offers enough motivation to continue what they do.
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For more than a decade TorrentFreak has covered the latest copyright and file-sharing news in written text. Today we’re trying something new with the first episode of the Steal This Show podcast, which will discuss recent news events and feature in-depth interviews with leading innovators.
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Steal This Show (STS) is a TF-supported initiative produced by Jamie King, who’s known for the Steal This Film documentaries and the independent filmmaker platform VODO.
STS plans to release high quality 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 big innovators and minds, one-on-one.
Below is the first pilot of STS’s first discussion show, we hope you enjoy it.
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Host: Jamie King
Guests: Tiffiniy Cheng and Holmes Wilson
Produced by Jamie King
Edited & Mixed by Eric Bouthiller
Original Music by David Triana
Topics being discussed this week:
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Leitung tot, Internet tot: Am Vormittag des 21. November 2015 hat ein Stromausfall in einem Rechenzentrum zu Störungen im Telefonnetz und im Internet geführt. (Telekommunikation) 
Leitung tot, Internet tot: Am Vormittag des 21. November 2015 hat ein Stromausfall in einem Rechenzentrum zu Störungen im Telefonnetz und im Internet geführt. (Telekommunikation) 
Einfach neu starten sollen Anwender ihr iPad Pro, wenn es nach dem Aufladen auf einmal nicht mehr reagiert. Diesen Tipp gibt Apple in seinem Support-Dokument für das große Tablet. Währenddessen berichten Nutzer, dass bei iOS 9.2 Beta der Fehler nicht mehr so oft auftritt. (