Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 116

Today there will be a court hearing on the claim of Zvuki.Ru against the “ Russian Music Portal ”. Zvuki.Ru, I remind you, is demonstrably fighting music pirates.

The Internet Engineering Task Force has published formal requirements for cookies .

A sweepstakes has opened on the Ekho Moskvy website: place your bets and guess who will win the American presidential election.

In the United States, public opinion polls regarding preferences in presidential elections occur continuously and around the clock, and the results are sometimes funny. In particular, it turned out that programmers and other geeks prefer Gore, and their superiors prefer Bush.

October 21, Obozrenie.ru , official release. Nothing new under the sun.

Experts from the Alliance for Childhood published a report in which, in a stunningly unoriginal manner, they prove that computers are harmful to children at an early age. What should we do with the children if the first thing they learn in a house where there is a computer is to press the reset button? Not power, note, but reset.

" Russian POP " was released, as promised, as part of the Zema.Ru project.

Chuck D once again told the world about the beauty of the Internet and technologies like Napster .

On October 24 , the Russian State Library will host a round table “ Library community on the Internet: problems and ways of development .” Of course, we cannot do without discussing the problem of copyright on the Internet.

CNN is trying to take away the cnnews.com domain from China Network News on the grounds that the domain name contains the letter "cnn." As the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization has demonstrated more than once, when considering such disputes, the more famous and reputable party wins.

The Communist Party of Vietnam has figured out how to develop Vietnamese information technology.

Corporations are once again going to fight with 2600: Hackers Quaterly . This time, General Motors was angry - because of the unauthorized use by the owners of the magazine of the trademark "General Motors" in the domain name FuckGeneralMotors.com , NBC - for using the trademark "NBC" in the domain name FuckNBC.com , and Verizon - for the same most in connection with the registration of the VerizonReallySucks.com domain. Verizon, however, withdrew the lawsuit a month ago, but the others, however, persist.

As part of the Web Characterization Project, experts have suggested that we are now seeing a slowdown in the growth of the WWW. In light of the theory of information overdose , which everyone is talking about now, this is more of a plus than a minus.