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Sandisk Ultra II 960 GByte im Test: Die (noch) günstige gute Terabyte-SSD

Etwas über 200 Euro für 960 GByte Speicherplatz: Sandisks Ultra II gehört zu den günstigsten SSDs am Markt. Wir haben uns angesehen, ob sich das mittlerweile anderthalb Jahre alte Modell noch lohnt. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)

Sourceforge: Keine Adware mehr beim Download

Bizx, der neue Besitzer der Software-Hosting-Plattform Sourceforge, hat das viel kritisierte Devshare-Programm eingestellt. Es bündelte vom Anwender unbemerkt Softwaredownloads mit Adware. (Sourceforge, Slashdot)

Sceptor: Die Nasa entwickelt ein Elektroflugzeug

Abheben ohne Verbrennungsmotor: Die Nasa baut ein Elektroflugzeug, das in zwei Jahren starten soll. Auch ein elektrisch betriebenes Passagierflugzeug ist in Arbeit. (Flugzeug, Nasa)

Square Enix: Hitman ohne mörderische Systemanforderungen

Kurz vor dem Start der Beta hat das Entwicklerstudio IO Interactive die Systemanforderungen der PC-Version des nächsten Hitman und zur kommenden Betaphase veröffentlicht. (Hitman, DirectX)

Videospeicher: GDDR5X geht im Sommer in Serienfertigung

Erste Chips im Labor, Testmuster für Partner im Frühling: Micron kommt mit dem neuen GDDR5X-Videospeicher gut voran, der Hersteller hat die ersten Muster in den eigenen Laboren. Ab Sommer 2016 möchte der Hersteller 1-GByte-Speicher in Serie produzieren. (Micron, Grafikhardware)

House bill would kill state, local bills that aim to weaken smartphone crypto

Bi-partisan legislation likely to be thorn in law enforcement’s “Going Dark” side.

On Wednesday, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) introduced a new bill in Congress that attempts to halt state-level efforts that would weaken encryption.

The federal bill comes just weeks after two nearly-identical state bills in New York state and California proposed to ban the sale of modern smartphones equipped with strong crypto that cannot be unlocked by the manufacturer. If the state bills are signed into law, current iPhone and Android phones would need to be substantially redesigned for those two states.

Lieu and Farenthold’s federal bill would need to pass both the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as be signed by the president in order to take effect. If that happens before the state bills are enacted, it would pre-empt them.

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Dallas Buyers Club Gives Up Chasing Pirates in Australia

Dallas Buyers Club has finally given up on its mission to demand cash settlements from alleged movie pirates in Australia. It’s believed the company has made large amounts of money from the activity in other jurisdictions but will not do so Down Under after failing to convince a judge it would not engage in so-called “speculative invoicing.”

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The company behind the movie Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) is known not only for making movies, but also by its ancillary business of chasing down alleged Internet pirates in order to force a cash settlement from them.

In several countries the company has been collecting hundreds to thousands of dollars from each of their ‘Joe Public’ targets but its efforts to do so in Australia have been beset with problems.

Through its legal representatives Dallas Buyers Club have now admitted that their battle to obtain the identities of more than 4,700 Aussie Internet subscribers is over.

Michael Bradley, the managing partner of DBC LLC law firm Marque Lawyers, told iTNews that tomorrow’s deadline for DBC to make a further application to the court would pass without a submission.

“It’s certainly a disappointing outcome for [Dallas Buyers Club]. It doesn’t do anything to mitigate the infringement that’s going on – it’s not a particularly satisfactory outcome from that point of view,” Bradley said.

But for those familiar with these cases, mitigating infringement is not the primary aim of DBC.

The company wanted to extract settlements from 4,726 Internet account holders but due to its activities elsewhere, Justice Perram was suspicious that the movie outfit would engage in so-called “speculative invoicing”.

To stop that from happening the Judge ordered the payment of a huge AUS$600,000 bond but the company decided not to pay. Ultimately, Dallas Buyers Club failed to convince the court that it would restrain its activities and keep promises not to demand high settlements from Internet account holders.

While the development is a huge blow to DBC and a significant win for Internet subscribers in Australia, it doesn’t necessarily restrain other companies from attempting to sue alleged pirates in the future.

“That might happen. But if the circumstances and the context of that are close to this one, then you’d expect the same outcome,” Bradley said.

Another element that significantly hampered DBC was the fact that it was based overseas, hence the large bond requirement set by the court. Bradley told iTNews that Australia-based rightsholders might face fewer obstacles.

“I suppose if a distributor who was local wanted to have a try, then they presumably wouldn’t face the same difficulty with security. You might get a different outcome,” he added.

Bradley also suggests that if rightsholders went after individual infringers one at a time then there probably wouldn’t be so much scrutiny by the courts. But of course, DBC is in the business of getting large settlements from large numbers of people, so that approach probably wouldn’t make much sense from a commercial standpoint.

And make no mistake. This was a purely commercial exercise and when the sums didn’t add up, DBC decided to throw in the towel. Whether they will continue their efforts elsewhere will remain to be seen but new territories have the potential to cause new problems, so sticking to what they know could be the most likely course of action.

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