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Non-Existent ‘Pirate Site’ Added to National Blocklist

The voluntary anti-piracy agreement between anti-piracy groups and ISPs in Portugal has resulted in more collateral damage. The country’s piracy blocklist was recently updated with a non-existent domain name, presumably after one of the parties involved made a typo.

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In recent months Portuguese Internet providers have started to block hundreds of websites that allegedly link to copyright infringing content.

The voluntary blocking regime was formalized last summer through an agreement between several parties including the Ministry of Culture and the Association of Telecommunication Operators.

The agreement allows copyright holders to add new pirate sites without any intervention or oversight from a court, something which has now led to some unusual blocks in recent weeks.

Aside from barring sites on questionable grounds, it appears that a simple typo can also get a website blocked. A few days ago a local news site spotted that one of the blocked domains is Forummaximus.net, which didn’t even exist at the time it was added.

Copyright holders were probably trying to block Forum-maximus.net, with a hyphen, but somewhere in the process someone made a mistake.

Forummaximus.net Not registered (image via)

As a result, Portugal’s blocklist included a domain that wasn’t even registered at the time. After the news broke someone eventually registered the URL, but without any infringing purposes it seems.

Still, visitors who try to reach the newly registered domain get the following error message (translated):

“The site that you’re trying to reach was blocked due to an order from the Regulator Agency.”

At the time of writing the correct site has been blocked as well, but the ‘typo’ error has yet to be corrected.

In this case the collateral damage is limited. However, it’s worrying that the lack of oversight from a court or third party organization can result in non-existent domain names being blocked.

It’s a fine example of how slippery the blocking slope can get.

TorrentFreak has reached out to local anti-piracy group MAPINET, who investigate the sites that are reported, to find out more about what went wrong. Thus far we haven’t heard back.

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

Bristol Ridge: AMD will Notebook-Chips um fast 1 GHz beschleunigen

Für die kommenden Notebook-SoCs vom Typ Bristol Ridge plant AMD hohe Frequenzen: Verglichen mit Carrizo sollen sie von 2 auf 3 GHz steigen – ohne dabei die Leistungsaufnahme zu erhöhen. (Prozessor, AMD)

Für die kommenden Notebook-SoCs vom Typ Bristol Ridge plant AMD hohe Frequenzen: Verglichen mit Carrizo sollen sie von 2 auf 3 GHz steigen - ohne dabei die Leistungsaufnahme zu erhöhen. (Prozessor, AMD)

Microsoft: Windows 10 erhält umfangreiches Update

Microsoft hat ein umfangreiches Update für Windows 10 veröffentlicht – abseits der Insider Builds. Mit der aktuellen Version werden viele lästige Fehler korrigiert und Microsoft reicht bislang vermisste Informationen zu den Windows-10-Versionen nach. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Microsoft hat ein umfangreiches Update für Windows 10 veröffentlicht - abseits der Insider Builds. Mit der aktuellen Version werden viele lästige Fehler korrigiert und Microsoft reicht bislang vermisste Informationen zu den Windows-10-Versionen nach. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Importmechanismus: Apple greift Evernote an

Im kommenden OS X 10.11.4 wird die Notizen-App von Apple in der Lage sein, Daten von Evernote zu importieren. So kann der Anwender komplett von Evernote auf Apples Lösung umsteigen. (OS X 10.11, Apple)

Logistik: Amazon will die komplette Lieferkette beherrschen

Amazon könnte DHL und UPS Konkurrenz machen, wenn das Unternehmen eigene Lkws, Flugzeuge und Schiffe für den Warentransport einsetzt. Amazons Lieferanten sollen künftig per App die Amazon-Lastwagen direkt zum Abtransport bestellen können. (Amazon)

Patent: Google will autonomen Lkw zur Warenauslieferung nutzen

Google will mit einem autonom fahrenden Lkw Waren an Kunden ausliefern. Der Lieferwagen mit Computer am Steuer ist mit abgeschlossenen Fächern ausgestattet, aus denen der Kunde die Pakete entnehmen kann. (Autonomes Fahren, Google)

The Pirate Bay Adds ‘Instant’ Streaming to Torrents

The Pirate Bay now allows users to streaming the latest pirated movies and TV shows right in their browsers without having to use a fully fledged BitTorrent client.

The newly added ability comes via a new browser plug-in called Torrents Time, which turns your browser into a BitTorrent client, complete with VPN support for anonymity.

Instead of clicking on the magnet link to start the torrent download, users of The Pirate Bay can simply click on the new "Stream It" link to start an "instant" stream.

Well, not quite instant, because users have to install a browser plug-in the first time they try to stream a movie or TV show, and after that, it may still take a couple of minutes for the buffering before the stream starts.

There is also built-in casting support for Chromecast, Airplay and DLNA, allowing you to enjoy your torrent streams on the big screen.

For now, Torrents Time is free, with monetization coming via referrals to Anonymous VPN. The Torrents Time website hints at the arrival of "ad servers", which may mean ads being displayed within the streams. Torrents Time also promises to share revenue with publishers like The Pirate Bay, or any torrent website willing to integrate the Torrents Time plug-in into their torrent downloads.

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 30th January 2016

The results and analysis for Blu-ray (and DVD) sales for the week ending 30th January 2016 are in. A relatively quiet week where the week’s best selling new release, Goosebumps, was also the week’s overall top seller.
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The results and analysis for Blu-ray (and DVD) sales for the week ending 30th January 2016 are in. A relatively quiet week where the week's best selling new release, Goosebumps, was also the week's overall top seller.

Read the rest of the stats and analysis to find out how Blu-ray (and DVD) did.

NASA budget proposal widens divide between White House and Congress

Budget battles likely over Earth science, and the Space Launch System

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden delivers his "State of NASA" speech at Langley Research Center on Tuesday. (credit: NASA)

Each year President Obama submits a budget for NASA to Congress, and each year the House of Representatives and Senate essentially toss out those numbers and come up with their own figures. Now that the President has submitted a $19 billion NASA budget for fiscal year 2017, we can expect the same scenario to play out again this year.

The macro battle with Congress will likely remain over the direction of the space agency. NASA sees itself as being on a journey to Mars. On Tuesday Charlie Bolden, the agency’s administrator and a four-time astronaut, reiterated that point. “We are closer today than ever before in human history to sending humans to the red planet,” Bolden said during a State of NASA speech. “Our plan is clear, affordable, sustainable and attainable.”

However Congress has become increasingly skeptical about the viability of NASA’s plan to go to Mars. During a hearing earlier this month, Republicans openly questioned whether NASA was, in fact, on a path to Mars. The chairman of the House Science Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), called it an "imbalanced proposal [that] continues to tie our astronauts’ feet to the ground and makes a Mars mission all but impossible,” in a statement to Ars.

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Relive your worst MS-DOS file-deletion memories at the Malware Museum

Classic, defanged files at archive.org won’t actually wipe your hard drive.

All of the pretty MS-DOS virus colors. (credit: Archive.org)

Archive.org has gone to great lengths to preserve and host dated software, but up until last week, its vast collection of classic games and MS-DOS executables skewed toward the overly safe side. Sure, you could run the original Oregon Trail—even on your web browser, through a DOSBOX emulator—and burden virtual pioneers with dysentery, but what about acquiring an actual virus?

That changed on Friday with the site's unveiling of the Malware Museum, a website collection of 78 viruses from the MS-DOS era of the late '80s and early '90s, all ready to either launch on a DOSBOX web browser emulator or be downloaded to your hard drive. Before you fret about some kind of crazy dated-virus outbreak, know that Archive.org went to the trouble of "defanging" every virus in its collection.

The "museum" began to take shape when longtime Finnish computer security expert Mikko Hypponen offered his personal collection of roughly 30 viruses, which he'd already disassembled to remove their drive-destructive capabilities, to Archive.org software curator Jason Scott. "He contacted me a week ago, out of the blue, asking if I wanted to do anything with this collection [of viruses]," Scott said in a phone interview with Ars. "I just put them all up and said, 'Yes, I like it, and I already put them all up [on the site]!'"

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