An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A Vietnamese court has sentenced 14 people who worked on the pirate football streaming site Bun Cha TV, handing out the first prison terms we've seen since the country's piracy crackdown began earlier this year. [...] Four defendants, including the heads of the content, programming and operations teams, were sentenced to 12 months in prison. Five others received ten months, and two were sentenced to eight months. Notably, three of the site's commentators were not sent to prison. Their ten-month sentences were suspended. All 14 defendants reportedly admitted the charges and cooperated with the authorities. According to investigators, Bun Cha TV streamed more than 150,000 sports matches and it allegedly made more than 20 billion dong, roughly $760,000, in illegal profits from betting and gambling ads.

The verdict reports don't mention a total. Instead, they list illegal gains per person or team. The leader of the content team allegedly gained more than 430 million dong, while commentators made from more than 31 million to more than 480 million dong each. The verdict was picked up by Rouse, the law firm that represents the Motion Picture Association in Vietnam. In an article headlined "Strong Vietnam criminal penalties," published on Lexology on November 3, the firm calls the ruling another victory for Vietnam's IP landscape.

"The defendants were all sentenced to terms of 8-12 months in prison," Rouse writes. While Rouse is correct on the length of the terms, it doesn't mention that three of the sentences were suspended. Instead, Rouse stresses that the ruling is part of a tougher enforcement trend. "This ruling reflects a shift in enforcement strategy by Vietnamese authorities, who are increasingly moving past preliminary domain blocking to deliver criminal convictions against the operators of commercial-scale piracy rings," the firm notes. "This perhaps reflects the strength of the national crackdown following the USTR pressure in May," the firm adds. According to the indictment, Bui Ba Hien, who runs a company called S24, allegedly directed employees and collaborators to build and operate Bun Cha TV. However, Hien is not among the 14 defendants named in reports, which also do not identify the affected rightsholders.

"Interestingly, in September, Bac Ninh police issued a wanted notice for a man of the same name, Bui Ba Hien, CEO of esports company Box Vietnam," reports TorrentFreak. "This person is also charged under the same copyright statute."

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Tikt of borrelt je radiator, of blijft de bovenkant koud terwijl de verwarming aanstaat? Dan zit er lucht in je cv-installatie. Dat kost comfort en gas. Het meeste kun je gelukkig zelf controleren.

Stap 1: check de waterdruk

Kijk op de meter of het display van je ketel. De druk hoort tussen 1,5 en 2 bar te liggen. Zakt hij onder 1 bar, dan kan de pomp kapotgaan. Boven 3 bar kan een leiding barsten.

Is de druk te laag? Vul de installatie dan bij via de vulkraan. Hoe dat precies gaat, verschilt per ketel. Kijk daarvoor in de handleiding.

Stap 2: ontlucht de radiatoren

Zet de thermostaat laag en laat het water even afkoelen. Het water in de radiator kan heet zijn. Draai met een ontluchtingssleutel het ventiel bovenaan de radiator voorzichtig open en houd er een doekje onder. Hoor je gesis, dan ontsnapt er lucht. Komt er alleen nog water uit, draai het ventiel dan dicht.

Doe dit bij alle radiatoren, één voor één. Daarna is de druk vaak gezakt. Kijk dus opnieuw op de meter en vul zo nodig bij.

Zakt de druk telkens weer, of blijven radiatoren koud? Dan is er mogelijk een lek of een defect. Dat is werk voor de installateur.

Stap 3: plak radiatorfolie

Staat een radiator tegen een ongeïsoleerde buitenmuur? Dan verdwijnt een deel van de warmte dwars door de steen naar buiten. Reflecterende folie achter de radiator kaatst die warmte terug de kamer in.

Een rekenvoorbeeld. Per vierkante meter folie tegen een ongeïsoleerde steensmuur bespaar je ongeveer 11 kuub gas per jaar. Bij een gasprijs van 1,37 euro per kuub is dat zo'n 15 euro. Plak je 4 vierkante meter, dan scheelt dat circa 44 kuub: ruwweg 60 euro per jaar. De folie kost enkele euro's per vierkante meter, dus je hebt hem binnen één winter terugverdiend.

Staat de radiator voor enkel glas, dan loopt de besparing op tot 50 kuub per vierkante meter. Achter een geïsoleerde muur levert folie bijna niets op: ongeveer 1 kuub.

Stap 4: stel thermostaat en ketel slim in

Voor de meeste mensen is 19 graden warm genoeg. Elke graad lager scheelt ongeveer 6 procent gas.

Zet de thermostaat een uur voor het slapen op 15 graden. Het kost minder energie om 's ochtends weer op te warmen dan om de hele nacht door te stoken. Let op: dat geldt voor een cv-ketel met gewone radiatoren. Met een hybride warmtepomp verlaag je 's nachts maximaal 1 à 2 graden. Met een volledig elektrische warmtepomp verlaag je helemaal niet.

Zet ook de ketel zelf, als het kan, op 50 of 60 graden. Hij werkt dan zuiniger.

Meer weten?

• ANWB: radiatoren ontluchten
• Milieu Centraal: bespaartips verwarming
• Essent: de waterdruk van je cv-installatie

Het wordt een overwegend zonnige dag met slechts een paar wolkenvelden. Vanochtend is het fris met eerst temperaturen rond 4 graden en een matige oostenwind. De maximumtemperatuur voor vanmiddag is ongeveer 10 graden en op het water wordt de wind soms vrij krachtig, windkracht 5.

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MPs on the business select committee called for an urgent centralised policy and the creation of a “critical minerals finance facility” to help fund rare earth and other critical mineral mines, and deploy grants, equity and debt to accelerate a diversification programme.

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So here I am in his dressing room at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, face to face with the man I’ve just seen on stage, and whose films and TV shows I’ve pored over for the past week, failing to recognise him. For starters, at 6ft, he’s taller than he should be. And more hench. And, actually, hotter.

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Oto Klempíř was for many years the frontman of JAR, a popular Czech funk-rock band. He was expelled from the band last year, not over creative differences, or even because of his collaboration with the secret police in the 1980s, but after he declared his intention to stand for parliament for Motorists for Themselves, a populist, nationalist, climate-sceptic party that is closely aligned with Maga ideology.

Klempíř is now Czechia’s culture minister and a leading figure behind an intensifying set of culture wars promoted by Andrej Babiš’s ruling coalition as it seeks to tighten its grip on power. Increasingly the government is borrowing methods favoured by Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Robert Fico in Slovakia.

Jan Bělíček is a journalist and editor in chief of the Czech media outlet Alarm

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On 5 August 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historic burger, made from cattle cells grown in a laboratory by Mark Post, a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The burger had taken two years to produce and cost €250,000 (about £210,000 at the time), money furnished by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Now it was being tasted in public for the first time at Riverside Studios in London, at an event attended by 200 members of the press and livestreamed to thousands.

To make this particular burger, Post had extracted stem cells from the shoulder muscle of a living cow, then cultivated them in plastic containers filled with a nutrient-rich supplement called foetal bovine serum, which is derived from cow foetuses. The cells eventually became 20,000 strands of tissue, which in turn became a single 140g patty. Post believed that beef produced this way had the potential to dramatically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and slow the climate crisis. Raising cattle for consumption requires massive amounts of land and water – and massive amounts of feed grown at a high environmental cost. He projected that global demand for meat would soon outstrip our ability to produce it the old-fashioned way, at which point our food systems would become unsustainable. But that didn’t have to mean a mass recalibration of our consumption habits or a global shift away from red meat. Post and his team had found another way.

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Amid galloping global crises, the Greek choreographer has returned to his revolutionary ideals. He explains how asking the near-impossible of dancers brings a shared joy

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Forty grand is not a bad bounty. Did he blow it on designer gear and exotic holidays? He did not. A big chunk went to his dancers, “because they are very hardworking and not so well paid – that’s the Greek reality”. The rest he invested in his new production: “I had some holes to fill, you know, in the budget.” The win may not have made Papadopoulos a household name (this is contemporary dance we’re talking about), but his work is touring worldwide. We speak over video call from Shanghai, where he is performing My Fierce Ignorant Step before its UK premiere.

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It was a moment that changed the course of British history: in AD43, Roman troops under the emperor Claudius landed in Kent. Now, an archaeologist has claimed the British ruler who persuaded Claudius to invade was not a king but a queen.

The controversial conclusion, made by Dr Miles Russell, the director of archaeological fieldwork at Bournemouth University, could throw new light on Britain’s history.

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Hospital workers, air traffic and rail staff expected to join strikes amid renewed protests over education and rising living costs

Hundreds of thousands are expected to march in demonstrations across France as trade unions call for a nationwide strike expected to extend to hospital workers, air traffic control, the post office, teachers and rail staff.

President Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office continue to be marred by domestic crises, as high school students protesting over poor teaching conditions have been joined by workers in weekly protests over the cost of living. Meanwhile, the government is struggling to pass a belt-tightening budget in a divided parliament as public debt approaches 120% of economic output.

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