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Auch erfahrene Spieler sind manchmal auf sie angewiesen: Tutorials. Sie erklären die grundlegende Funktionsweise und Bedienung von Spielen. Golem.de hat mit dem Spielentwickler Nicolae Berbece darüber gesprochen, was man bei Tutorials falsch und richtig machen kann. (GDC Europe 2016, Interview)

Apple Maps soll durch die Nutzer deutlich verbessert werden, ohne dass sie dazu selbst die Umgebung vermessen müssen. Möglich macht das die Auswertung des App-Nutzungsverhaltens. Apple versucht, die Nutzerdaten zu anonymisieren. (Datenschutz, Applikationen)

Auch Marvell möchte im Segment der günstigen, aber flotten SSDs mitspielen: Der 88NV1160 setzt auf das NVMe-Protokoll und vier PCIe-Lanes, nutzt aber statt DRAM eine Cache-Technik. (Marvell, Speichermedien)

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Independence Day: Resurgence 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 Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

Ranking	(last week)	Movie	IMDb Rating / Trailer
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1	(2)	Independence Day: Resurgence (Subbed HDRip)	5.6 / trailer
2	(1)	The Legend of Tarzan (Subbed HDRip)	6.6 / trailer
3	(4)	The Jungle Book	7.8 / trailer
4	(3)	Warcraft	7.7 / trailer
5	(6)	The Nice Guys	7.7 / trailer
6	(…)	Suicide Squad (HDTS)	6.9 / trailer
7	(5)	Jason Bourne (CAM/TS)	7.4 / trailer
8	(…)	Me Before You	7.6 / trailer
9	(7)	Batman: The Killing Joke	7.3 / trailer
10	(…)	Money Monster	6.7 / trailer

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

Die eigene Handschrift mag kunstvoll, unleserlich oder gewöhnlich sein - doch bisher schaffte es kein Rechner, das Schreibverhalten eines Menschen individuell nachzuahmen. (Deep Learning, Grafiksoftware)

Das Elektroauto Tesla Model S gibt es mit verschiedenen Akkukapazitäten zu kaufen. Nun scheint das Unternehmen auch eine 100-kWh-Version zu planen. Eine europäische Zulassungsbehörde hat das Fahrzeug in ihrer Datenbank gelistet. (Elektroauto, GreenIT)

Arduino.cc hat seinen Online-Editor für alle freigegeben. Benutzer sollen sich nicht mehr um Updates kümmern müssen. Allerdings ist die Hardware-Unterstützung noch eingeschränkt. (Arduino, API)

Ask any half-interested user to name the best public torrent sites and many will fall back on those inhabiting the top ten most popular online today.

While there’s much glory to be had, being one of the world’s most-visited torrent indexes has its downsides.

Two huge sites previously in the top ten of 2016 – KickassTorrents and Torrentz – have now disappeared, with at least one falling victim to enforcement action. It’s possible, if not likely, that more will fall in the months and years to come.

But what about sites outside the top ten? What about those in the top 50, top 100 or top 250? What happens to those on a day to day basis?

Well, each endures its own unique set of problems associated with running a torrent site but due to their size, most don’t have high-powered law enforcement agencies breathing down their necks. That often means they’re able to provide a steady service to users without too many headaches.

But while small is sometimes cool, obscurity is often the enemy of growth, both in terms of users and availability of content, with the former being the provider of the latter. That’s where meta and/or multi-site search engines step in.

A meta-search engine is a search engine that searches other search engines, in this case other torrent sites and indexes. Without doubt, the most famous meta-search engine was Torrentz, but that shut down last week.

Torrentz be sorely missed. While it was always possible to visit The Pirate Bay or KickassTorrents to get a popular torrent, if that content was a little more rare, time-consuming visits to multiple sites might be necessary. Torrentz alleviated that problem by searching multiple sites at once and displaying the results in one location.

As the image above shows, most sites that were listed by Torrentz are very successful in their own right but the concept of meta-search doesn’t have to stop at the biggest players.

There’s no insurmountable reason why meta and multi-site search engines of the future won’t index hundreds of diverse torrent sites, sites that might usually fly under the radar due to their small size and low public profile.

Of course, once these sites become more visible (and searchable) they will naturally grow in size, with the higher quality platforms securing a larger share of the traffic. For some, this could mean the loss of their quiet life status and for others, it might mean breaking into the top 10.

Whether these changes in status will turn out to be a help or hindrance is a matter for each site operator, but for the user it will mean greater access to a broader range of sites that are less likely to be taken down.

The authorities are reasonably happy to play whac-a-mole at the top, but doing so with hundreds of targets lower down the food chain becomes an expensive, chaotic, and ultimately unwinnable game.

Giants might be doomed to fall but the era of the thousand little men might be just around the corner – if people can find them.

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

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