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    Perform Group, the digital sports content and media company, has confirmed an exclusive deal to broadcast live and on-demand English Premier League matches in Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein from the start of the 2016-17 season. Sky Deutschland was the previous Premier League rights holder in German-speaking Europe.


    The three-year deal also allows Perform to broadcast live and on-demand Premier League football in Switzerland and Luxembourg on a non-exclusive basis and includes clip rights across all five countries.


    Perform’s acquisition of the Premier League rights further enhances its growing portfolio of premium broadcast rights secured for Perform’s OTT service launching in the selected markets in 2016, including La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, NBA and NFL.


    John Gleasure, Chief Commercial Officer, Perform OTT, said of the deal: “We are delighted to have secured the exclusive English Premier League rights for Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein as well as the non-exclusive rights in Switzerland and Luxembourg. The arrival of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Jurgen Klopp has further increased interest in the Premier League across the German-speaking markets, and it is an exciting addition to our already extensive portfolio of exclusive live and on-demand content on our upcoming OTT offering.”


    “We will continue to add a range of both international and local rights to the service before our 2016 launch, and look forward to announcing further acquisitions in the very near future,” he concluded.


    Premier League Executive Chairman, Richard Scudamore added: “Perform has an established track record as a digital content provider and we are very pleased they have chosen to invest in our broadcasting rights in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Luxembourg. We look forward to working with them to make the best Premier League content available to our fans in those countries.”


    In a similar deal, Liberty Global-owned cable operator Ziggo has acquired the Premier League rights in the Netherlands for the next three seasons. Ziggo has the rights to live matches and highlights as well as the rights to make matches available online via its Horizon Go and Ziggo Sport Totaal Go apps. Fox Sports was the previous rights-holder in the country.

    How to find out if your Netflix account was hacked – and how to fix it

    Dec 2, 2015 at 9:39 AM

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    Intrepid hackers are selling a new kind of product on the Dark Web: lifetime access to Netflix accounts and other streaming services that belong to unsuspecting paying customers. Hackers are charging less than a dollar for each Netflix account the sell, guaranteeing lifetime access, according to a McAfee Labs research report.


    The hackers are taking advantage of a popular Netflix feature – users can share their passwords with other people – to sell this particular service on the black market. Meanwhile, chances are that the owners of the Netflix accounts sold on the Dark Web have no idea what’s going on.


    Here’s what you can do to find out if you’ve been hacked, and how you can fix it if it was.


    One thing you can do to see if your personal information was accessed by hackers is to check the haveibeenpwned.com website, which will tell you whether your data was stolen, Motherboard reports. However, this might not always be effective, so you can start your investigation in a different place: Your Netflix account.


    If you notice strange movies in your Recently Watched section, it might be an indication that someone is accessing your account. However, there’s a quick fix for that, as Business Insider explains.


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    Just go to your account page, and select the Sign out of all devices option (image above). That’s it. The click of a single button will kill all Netflix sessions on any device out there. After that, make sure you change your password.


    It might be a good idea to not share your new passwords with family and friends immediately. After all, you’ll want to see if hackers crack your account a second time, and that means limiting the number of people you give access to. That way, if strange titles still appear in your history again, it means someone is still able to get into your Netflix account.


    One other thing you should watch out for is the creation of other viewer profiles, which obviously might mean a third party has access to your account.


    Finally, since hackers sell lifetime access to your account, that could mean other personal data has been stolen which could help them regain access to your account. You should make sure you change passwords to other online services as well, and choose unique passwords for each one. You should also check your bank activity and determine whether there are any fraudulent charges.


    Source : http://bgr.com/2015/12/02/netflix-account-hack-fix/

    ProgDVB Professional Edition v7.11.6 Multilingual


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    P2P group has released the updated version of “ProgDVB Professional Edition” for Windows. It is a complex yet simple to use digital video broadcasting tool that allows you to enjoy online radio and TV channels directly from your PC.
    Description: ProgDVB – the universal and very power software for watching digital TV and listening to radio channels! ProgDVB allows you to watch SAT-Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB-PCI cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal computers with Microsoft Windows installed. It has options for working with network broadcasting and Audio/Video recording of the stream to different digital-


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    Features:
    High Definition TV support including H.264/AVC
    Picture-in-picture support as well as independent simultaneous recording/playback of several channels from one or more devices
    Mosaic fast channels preview
    Support for the majority of DVB, ISDB-T and ATSC devices including DiSEqC and CAM interfaces support
    Support for all digital TV audio formats: MPEG, AC3, AAC,…
    Time shifting functionality using the RAM or disk buffer of unlimited size
    10 Bands equalizer
    TV and Radio channels recording
    And Many More..

    After being alerted by Sky last month, customers of the UK broadband provider are now receiving letters accusing them of Internet piracy. Letters obtained by TorrentFreak reveal porn outfit Golden Eye accusing account holders of copyright infringement but noting that they might not actually be to blame.


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    Last month news broke that a brand new flood of copyright infringement threats were about to land with UK-based Internet users.


    “A company called Golden Eye International, which owns rights to several copyrighted films, has claimed that a number of Sky Broadband customers engaged in unlawful file sharing of some of its films,” ISP Sky told its subscribers in a warning letter.


    “It’s likely that Golden Eye International will contact you directly and may ask you to pay them compensation.”


    It’s taken several weeks but as promised Sky subscribers are now receiving letters from Golden Eye (GEIL) and partner firm Ben Dover Productions (BDP).


    “It is with regret that we are writing this letter to you. However, GEIL and BDP are very concerned at the illicit distribution of films over the Internet,” the letter begins.


    GEIL then explains that it is not the content owner but “the licensee authorized to enforce breach of copyright” on the adult movie titles referenced in the letters. To protect our sources we aren’t publishing the movie titles but to get an idea of the embarrassment some people are feeling right now, a full list of the movies can be found in GEIL’s license arrangement with BDP, available here (PDF).


    As usual GEIL points out that it has hired a “forensic computer analyst” to track alleged infringers. However, in more than one instance it appears that GEIL is accusing people of downloading and sharing content in the summer of 2014. Expecting people to remember what happened so long ago could be a tall order.


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    “On 26 August 2015 Master Bowles, sitting in the High Court, ordered that SKY UK LTD give disclosure of your name and address, for the purpose of enabling us to send you this letter and if necessary bring legal proceedings against you,” the letter continues.


    “In accordance with that Order, SKY UK identified you as the subscriber noted in their systems as on their network associated with the IP address on the date and at the time in question.”


    As noted this past weekend ISPs can make mistakes too, but nevertheless GEIL’s letter clearly states that the account holder is assumed to be both the infringer and the user of the relevant computer at the date and time in question.


    The company cannot possibly know this for certain since any number of people can have access to a household’s Internet access. Interestingly, they immediately admit that too.


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    Of course, if people are unaware of any infringement taking place they cannot reasonably be expected to furnish GEIL with that information. And while GEIL say they “may” ask the court to conclude that the account holder was the user of a an unspecified computer on a date 18 months ago, the court is also free to reject that assertion.


    It’s also worth noting that GEIL have never engaged in a contested case in court, despite threatening to do so many times previously. What the company actually wants is a confession and hard cash.


    “Once your response to this letter is received, GEIL and BDP will be prepared, if we believe that you have behaved unlawfully, to give you the opportunity to avoid legal action by proposing a settlement out of court,” the letter notes.


    As previously instructed by the court GEIL is not allowed to ask for a specific amount in its initial letter, but recipients of second letters from the company will probably receive demands of up to £600 to £700 to put the matter to rest.


    However, GEIL also tries to lure letter recipients in by suggesting that accidental infringement or that carried out by a child might result in a lower settlement amount being offered.


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    GEIL concludes by asking for a detailed confession or for the account holder to point the finger at members of their family or friends who have had access to their network.


    “Please state whether you admit that you have downloaded the Work and/or made it available for download by others and if so the extent to which you have done so and whether you are prepared in principle to enter into a settlement of the kind outlined above,” GEIL adds.


    “If you deny that you have downloaded the Work or made it available for download by others, please explain the basis upon which you deny it, and provide the information that we have requested above about other users of the computer.”


    TorrentFreak has spoken to several letter recipients in the past few days. Only one said he was thinking of settling with GEIL.


    People looking for legal advice can contact Southampton-based solicitor Michael Coyle who is handling these cases for a fraction of the amount requested by GEIL.

    After a long wait the UK's broad anti-piracy effort operated by ISPs and copyright holders has finally launched. The UK Government-funded program aims to warn and educate illegal file-sharers in the hope of decreasing piracy rates over time, but thus far the response has been rather underwhelming.


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    In an effort to curb online piracy, early last year the movie and music industries reached agreement with the UK’s leading ISPs to send ‘warnings’ to alleged pirates.


    Under the new system copyright holders will monitor illegal P2P file-sharing activity with a strong focus on repeat offenders.


    The warning program is part of the larger Creative Content UK (CCUK) initiative which also includes an educational component. Though various PR campaigns the coalition hopes to change people’s attitudes towards piracy.


    CCUK was launched after years of negotiating and the plans were widely discussed in the media. However, when the first campaign launched a few weeks ago there was a remarkable silence.


    The first education campaign is called “Get It Right from a Genuine Site.” It encourages people to stay clear from pirate sites and use licensed services instead, so that copyright holders and industry employees are properly compensated.


    The campaign was promoted alongside an ad which aired during the UK version of The X-Factor and elsewhere late October. In the high-profile advertising spot, which isn’t cheap, viewers were encouraged to duck dodgy sites and go legit.


    “Get the stuff you love from genuine sites and support creativity. Download or stream from dodgy sites and contribute nothing. It’s your choice,” it says.



    CCUK is encouraging the public to use the hashtag #genuine to promote the initiative. However, thus far the response has been rather underwhelming with only a handful of tweets, mostly from industry insiders.


    Today, the hashtag is mostly used in totally unrelated tweets and on other social media the project isn’t really taking off either. The official Facebook page of the campaign has only 114 likes.


    The only Facebook comment responding to the campaign ad is not very encouraging either. “It’s not 2003. No one’s getting pirated music from IRC or whatever,” it reads.


    In addition to the ad, CCUK is also backing a large street art project. It’s not entirely clear how this offline project relates to online piracy, but perhaps it’s an effort to appeal to the target audience.


    TorrentFreak asked CCUK who informed us that they are happy with the progress they’ve made thus far.


    ‘Get it Right from a Genuine Site’ is a long term campaign which seeks to engage consumers across numerous channels about the wide range of legal sources available and help raise awareness of the value of creative content.”


    “We are very pleased with the progress of the campaign to date and as awareness continues to build, we expect to see strong results for the creative sectors in the coming year.”


    In the months to come CCUK will release additional campaigns as well as the piracy alerts program, where BT, SKY, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will notify pirating subscribers.


    A CCUK spokesperson previously informed us that their ultimate goal is to bring down local piracy rates. During the months following the rollout the file-sharing habits of UK Internet users will be frequently polled to measure the impact of the campaign.


    “The aim of Creative Content UK is to encourage greater use of legal content services and to reduce online copyright infringement. There will be regular measurements of legal and illegal consumption of content throughout the duration of the initiative, which will be compared with levels before the launch of the program,” CCUK told TF.


    Considering the response and exposure thus far, there’s still a long way to go.

    The exception has now been officially scrapped, meaning that creating personal backups of music, videos, e-books and ripping CDs and DVDs is technically now an offence


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    It is once again illegal to make personal copies of the music in the U.K. following the withdrawal of the 2014 ‘private copying exception’.
    According to The 1709 Blog, the exception has now been officially scrapped, meaning that creating personal backups of music, videos, e-books and ripping CDs and DVDs is technically now an offence.


    The exception was introduced in October 2014 and has been under judicial review brought about by a music industry collective including the British Academy of Songwriters and the Musicians’ Union.


    In June, the exception was ruled to be ‘flawed’. Rather than researching alternative options, the decision was made to get rid of it completely.
    Critics argue that the move has no financial advantages for the music industry.


    As The 1709 blog explains: “Those users who are aware of the changes face a difficult decision: whether to make copies for personal use in contravention of the law in the reasonably sure knowledge that they won’t get caught, or abide by the law and deny themselves a degree of sensible flexibility in their viewing and listening choices.


    “One thing they will not do is go out and buy a digital replacement such as a download, for a CD or DVD they already own”.
    Despite the ruling, it’s unlikely that the the authorities will pursue convictions against people making copies for private use.
    The long-winded scrapping of the exception suggests copyright law has not been suitably updated for the digital age and is in dire need of reform.


    Source: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/maki…al-100111982.html#izUL5vW

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    German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland expects strong growth of the pay-TV markets in Germany and Austria.


    “In other European countries, the market penetration of pay-TV amounts to 30, 40 or 50%. There are no structural reasons why we won’t reach penetration levels like this over here,” the new managing director of Sky Austria, Christine Scheil (pictured), said in an interview with Austrian news agency APA.


    “It will take some time, but that’s the target, of course. In the UK, for example, more than one in two households have a subscription. Why shouldn’t we achieve this, too?” asks Scheil. In Austria, Sky has doubled its subscriber figure since 2009 and now reaches 350,000 customers and a turnover of €150 million. The total subscriber figure in Germany and Austria amounts to 4.37 million.


    “We want to continue growing. We want to increase the revenues per subscriber, we want our customers to be more satisfied with the product and we want churn rates to go down,” said Scheil who has been heading Sky’s Austrian activities since September 1, 2015.


    The growth drivers and key elements on this path would be exclusive premium content in the areas of sports, movies and series, technological innovations and further developments making it easier for subscribers to consume Sky’s offerings as well as an improved customer service, explained Scheil.


    Source: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com…ising-pay-tv-penetration/

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    The subscribers of German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland can receive sports channel sportdigital in HD quality from December 1, 2015.


    Sky customers with DTH reception equipment subscribed to at least basic package Sky Starter will be able to sign up for sportdigital HD at any time.


    sportdigital has been available to Sky DTH customers since 2008. Existing subscribers continue to pay €4.99 per month to access the channel. New customers will have to pay €5.99 per month from December 1, 2015.


    The HD version of sportdigital launched in November 2014, but has so far not been available to Sky customers.


    Under the motto Football around the world, sportdigital shows around 500 live matches per season from 13 competitions across four continents including Europe, South-America, Japan and Australia.


    Source : http://www.broadbandtvnews.com…to-offer-sportdigital-hd/

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    Dutch DTH platform CanalDigitaal, part of the M7 Group, is switching off the SD feed of the main Dutch channels in 2016.


    The channels involved are the main ten Dutch channels from public broadcaster NPO (NPO1, NPO2, NPO3), and private broadcasters RTL (RTL4, RTL5, RTL7 and RTL8) and SBS Broadcasting (SBS6, Net5 and Veronica).


    The ten channels are currently available in SD on the Astra position at 19.2 degrees East, but will from next year onwards only be available in HD at the Astra 3 position of 23.5 degrees East. At the same time, the Mediaguard 2 encryption used for the SD channels will be terminated.


    The platform is also terminating the free-to-view offer of the Dutch public channels, due to changes in the Dutch media law.


    Source : http://www.broadbandtvnews.com…ch-off-for-canaldigitaal/

    Pirates have found a new loophole that allows them to copy 4k movies and TV-shows from Netflix and Amazon. Up until recently these high quality 4K resolution rips were nonexistent, but a flurry of new releases from various groups show that something has changed.


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    While the average consumer is generally not equipped to play 4K content on their TV or computer, many video geeks are looking forward to every new release.


    Thus far the physical offerings have been limited to adult content mostly, with just a handful of mainstream productions. However, with the adoption of a Blu-Ray standard for Ultra High Definition video more releases will follow soon.


    4K streaming releases have been available for a while already though, with Netflix and Amazon as the two key vendors in this market.


    These online streams were always well protected against pirates. The High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP) version 2.2 or higher is still believed to be secure today, but there are signs that pirates have found a way to bypass the protection.


    Earlier this year the first 4K Netflix leak surfaced. After that it went quiet. However, a few days ago something changed, as many more releases started to appear online.


    TorrentFreak spoke to a release group insider who confirmed that this is a significant change.


    “Many groups started releasing 4K rips recently and they are working perfectly. I expect that 4K resolution releases will become more popular now,” TorrentFreak was told.


    The new 4K leaks come from both Netflix and Amazon, suggesting that there’s a general loophole that allows pirates to circumvent the copy protection on both services.


    Up until recently this was impossible to do. There were a handful of upscaled releases floating around with a lot of pixelation and low bitrates, but these don’t come close to real 4K.


    The new releases are true 4K and include Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle as well as the recent pilots Edge, Good Girls Revolt, Highston, One Mississippi
    and Patriot.


    Amazon’s 4k leaks


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    Another series of high-profile 4K leaks that came out this week are of Netflix’s Jessica Jones. As with the other rips the file-sizes are much larger than traditional HD-releases, well over 10 gigabytes for a single episode.


    Netflix’ Jessica Jones 4k leaks


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    The media info for one of the Jessica Jones leaks show that it’s 4K, at a 32.5 Mbps bitrate. Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the video quality is always exceptional.


    “For example for Marvel’s Jessica Jones new TV series from Netflix the 4K captures look bad, because the master from Netflix is probably bad,” we were told by an insider.


    Downloading a 4K release from Amazon or Netflix and getting a pirated copy out is not something that’s easily done. The original rips are often well over 100 gigabytes in size. Still, many groups are jumping on the 4K bandwagon.


    The main question that remains is how the groups are able to circumvent the copy protection. Our source says that Amazon’s Fire TV and Roku 4K are likely sources, as they may not be as well protected as some believe.


    Amazon’s Fire TV uses the weaker HDCP 1.4b protection and 23.976 frames/s, which only supports Amazon 4K releases and not Netflix.


    Roku recently released their new streaming player with 4K support and native refresh rate switching, which can play Netflix’s 4K library. It arrived in stores early November, just before the 23.976 frames/s 4k rips started coming out.


    Whatever the source is, the stream of new releases is unprecedented and marks the start of a new era of high quality video releases.


    In recent years many people have been downloading higher quality rips already, but it will probably take a few years before 4K becomes the new standard. Overall, however, pirating video geeks will be happy with the news.

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    After success of wireless data transmission technology Wi-Fi, scientists are coming with a new age technology ‪‎Li_Fi‬.


    Li_Fi is a lot faster than what we are currently getting from Wi-Fi. In Lab conditions, researchers claimed to achieve the speeds of 224 gigabits per second by testing Li_Fi technology.


    Researchers believe that Li_Fi is capable of sending data up to 1GB per second which is 100 times quicker than average Wi-Fi networks.


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    A newly discovered vulnerability can expose the real IP-addresses of VPN users with relative ease. The issue, which affects all VPN protocols and operating systems, was uncovered by Perfect Privacy who alerted several affected competitors to the threat before making it public.


    For the past several years interest in encrypted and anonymous communications has spread to a much wider audience.


    VPN providers are particularly popular among BitTorrent users, who by default broadcast their IP-addresses to hundreds of people when downloading a popular file.


    The goal of using a VPN is to hide one’s ISP IP-address, but a newly discovered vulnerability shows that this is easily bypassed on some providers.


    The problem, uncovered by VPN provider Perfect Privacy (PP), is a simple port forwarding trick. If an attacker uses the same VPN as the victim the true IP-address can be exposed by forwarding traffic on a specific port.


    The security flaw affects all VPN protocols including OpenVPN and IPSec and applies to all operating systems.


    “Affected are VPN providers that offer port forwarding and have no protection against this specific attack,” PP notes.


    For example, if an attacker activates port forwarding for the default BitTorrent port then a VPN user on the same network will expose his or her real IP-address.


    The same is true for regular web traffic, but in that case the attacker has to direct the victim to a page that connects to the forwarded port, as Perfect Privacy explains in detail.


    The vulnerability affected the setup of various large VPN providers, who were warned last week. This included Private Internet Access (PIA), Ovpn.to and nVPN, who have all fixed the issue before publication.


    PIA informs TorrentFreak that their fix was relatively simple and was implemented swiftly after they were notified.


    “We implemented firewall rules at the VPN server level to block access to forwarded ports from clients’ real IP addresses. The fix was deployed on all our servers within 12 hours of the initial report,” PIA’s Amir Malik says.


    In addition, PIA complimented Perfect Privacy for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability prior to making it public and awarded their competitor with a $5,000 bounty under its Whitehat Alert Security Program.


    Not all VPN providers were tested so it is likely that many others are still vulnerable. Hopefully, these will address the issue in the near future.

    November 26, 2015




    French sports newspaper L’Equipe is reporting that Canal Plus has lost its TV rights to air English Premier League football matches. The rights have been picked up, says the report, by multinational telco and cable operator Altice.


    L’Equipe says Altice’s new rights kick in from the autumn of 2016, and will run for 3 years. Canal Plus paid €63 million annually for its rights.


    A flash report to investors from equity analyst Charles Bedouelle at Exane/BNP-Paribas says that the news is a negative for Canal, and Vivendi, although he adds that a more likely bidder would have been BeIN Sports.


    The analyst says that while Canal would now “save” the €63 million obligation but it will further exacerbate the pressures on Canal Plus as far as holding onto its existing core subscriber base. “Canal has now about two-thirds of the French premier league, the best but not all champions league rights and NONE of the attractive European championships,” adds Bedouelle.


    “Altice most likely paid a MUCH higher price than the current €63m pa. As a reminder, rights acquired by BeIN or kept by Canal have been renegotiated at 60%+ higher price. This could also mean that the reinvestments promised by Vivendi Chairman (“Le Monde, Nov 13th”) to its employee – which includes sport rights – will be more difficult / costly.”


    As an aside, Bedouelle asks whether the deal – if confirmed – means that Altice will become more aggressive in content? “The group certainly has great media ambitions,” says Bedouelle.


    Source: http://advanced-television.com…ng-premier-league-rights/