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<\/p>\nSorry for the brief hiatus – stuff got into the way (more dental stuff as well) and I just couldn’t rush out a WNR last week. But it’s all good now, and we have lots to go through this week, so let’s get started.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Is Star Wars: The Last Jedi the film that hackers have stolen from Disney?<\/p><\/div>\n
The new trend in piracy appears\u00a0to have shifted to one of hacking, theft and blackmail. Following the theft of Netflix’s ‘Orange is the New Black’, a story I covered a few weeks ago, it appears Disney has become the latest victim of this trend. Disney boss Bob Iger revealed that hackers claims to have stolen one of the studio’s unreleased films<\/a> and have threatened to release it publicly if a ransom demand, in BitCoins, is not met.<\/p>\n Iger did not reveal the name of the film, but did categorically ruled out meeting the hacker’s demands, which means\u00a0the hackers might soon release the film online and we’ll all know then what film it was. It’s also unclear whether this is related to the Netflix theft, although based on the Twitter account of the Netflix hacker, it’s probably not the same guy (he did not mention\u00a0anything about having hold of Disney content).<\/p>\n Many are speculating as to which movie was stolen, but with Disney’s line-up for 2017 including the likes of\u00a0‘Cars 3’, ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ and ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, Disney better hope it’s not one of these mega blockbusters that ends on being leaked on torrent sites.<\/p>\n Speaking of being leaked on, Netflix’s new Android app, or rather Google’s Play store, is preventing those with rooted phones from downloading the latest update<\/a>. Those with rooted phones are being met with a message stating their phone is not compatible, and this is most likely due to the new DRM requirement of the updated Netflix app.<\/p>\n The issue isn’t that bad though, since users can always sideload the Netflix app and it will run perfectly on rooted phones (so it’s really just the Play store being a d*ck, and not letting rooted phones from updating) – assuming you can find a secure place to download the Netflix app.<\/p>\n As for what’s actually new in the app, there’s a huge new feature for users of LG’s G6 phone. It is one of the first phones to support Dolby Vision HDR, and\u00a0the new Netflix app will be able to take full advantage of the phone’s gorgeous screen. Samsung Galaxy S8 owners like myself got prematurely\u00a0excited when the HDR logo started showing up on our phone too (which also supports HDR, but not Dolby Vision), but it turns out it was just a mistake and that the streams weren’t happening in HDR.<\/p>\n The HDR update for the S8 and S8+ will be coming soon, most likely, and I can’t wait!<\/p>\n Dolby Vision promises better, more colors, and more vivid pictures than even HDR10<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>