Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 150

Every sigh of relief from MP3.com is followed by another lawsuit. This time, EMusic formulated claims against the company , accusing MP3.com of illegally distributing music from the plaintiff’s collection through the My.MP3.com service . Apparently it's safer for MP3.com to never sigh. Or don't breathe.

The latest release of Aimster expands the coverage of the program: it will now come with plug-ins , allowing users to enjoy the service not only for users of AOL Instant Messenger , but also MSN Messenger , and in the future - Yahoo! Messenger and Napster chat .

The musicians of the rock band Transmatic published their recordings on Loudenergy.com and as a result signed a contract with Virgin's Immortal Records . Imagine their surprise.

8% of all electricity consumed in the United States is somehow related to computers and the Internet. The US is anticipating an energy crisis.

American human rights activists are protesting against the implementation of the Children's Internet Protection Act , according to which schools and libraries that want to continue to receive federal subsidies for the purchase of computer equipment and Internet connections must install filters on their computers that exclude access to pornographic sites . On Friday, Congress already approved this tale, and Clinton should approve it soon.

Society, however, does not sleep and saves itself. group The Peacefire has released a program that can disable filters for pornography .

Some kind of widespread Kursk anomaly has occurred in Germany. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution accused Napster and, accordingly, the company that bought it, Bertelsmann , that the Napster platform is used by neo-Nazis to exchange recordings of their neo-Nazi music. terms of service Which, generally speaking, is against Napster's . But that's not even the point. It's all Napster's fault again . Moreover, it is not located in Germany. Thank you, no claim has been filed yet.

It’s impossible not to quote the favorite hero of our horror film with a sequel. “In terms of the growth rate of the cellular communications or Internet segment, we are many times ahead of even developed countries. In the concept mentioned above, we intend to create conditions in the next ten years under which the growth rate would be even more significant , said ” Leonid Reiman in an interview with Kommersant . Regarding the “conditions under which” I can assume that with the introduction of SORM , the implementation of the time-based plan and other equally meaningful measures, we can only assume that cell phones will be made of cardboard and they will be distributed by force. Not having a cell phone with you is equivalent to not having a passport when meeting with the police. I don’t see any other way to achieve growth in a field where everything is done to ensure that the user does not stop vomiting.

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