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For piracy will be punished and the innocent, too

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In Russia in the near future may be legislation, which is tighten the fight against software piracy . And especially do not fall under attack by pirates, and users of counterfeit software and content, including involuntary users, acting without any malice. Plenum of the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration courts of the Russian Federation prepared a draft decree, which clarifies which entered into force on 1 January 2008 Article 1250 Civil Code ( «protection of intellectual property rights»). The article states that the absence of fault does not absolve the offender of the need to end the use of Audio, and does not preclude the application of the sanctions. Thus, in the near future the Russian users of pirated software, as well as owners and customers house networks and videohostingov can begin to fine for violation of intellectual property rights. And even if they did not know (and could not know) that the use of Audio. Previously, the law-enforcement and judicial authorities acted in anot...

Blogs: the history of the phenomenon

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Own Internet blogs nowadays have no surprise. Blogs has long ceased to be «the phenomenon on the Internet» - now a powerful marketing, social and political tool. Indeed, the very notion of «civic journalism» evolved precisely because of the wide spread of blogs. Blogging, like many other phenomena, generated by the Internet, have become not only a social factor, but part of our recent history. Well, let's see how it all began. Phenomenon Similarly, we can say only one thing: it all began in 1994. Researchers differ, who was the first bloggers on the planet. According to one view, the first time began to keep a diary on the internet no one famous student Justin Hall. According to another version, the creator of the first blog has been known programmer Dave Weiner. His online diary - Scripting News - first became widely known among users of the network. However, the word «blog» then did not exist. The word appeared 17 December 1997. The first used the word weblog Dzhorn Berger, autho...

Concepts of mobile phones

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In Search of the Future Great efforts hordes of designers and engineers focused on the invention of the phone tomorrow. And although, in fact, their work is akin to the work of fantasist operating skills developed boundless imagination, yet the creators of concepts based on solid technology, while still existent, but quite possible. The work they are strict on several fronts: Designers seek new ways to design concepts - unusual, comfortable, surprising, stylish, fashionable and even a little different from the decisions of competitors, engineers are also working on a technological concepts, the basic trend is the use of science and technology, even if it is not quite finished. This is undoubtedly important to ensure that future phones will not resemble today's, working as an independent lone geniuses, and creative units of large manufacturing companies. It is worth noting the success of the fantastic research company BenQ and Nokia, who regularly heartened fans very unusual devices...