Condemned spamer struggles for a freedom of speech

One of the most active in the world of spammers Jeremiah Dzhejns sentenced for mass dispatch of advertising letters by nine years of prison, demands to recognize the law on an interdiction of a spam unconstitutional.

According to Dzhejnsa, the interdiction on a spam breaks its constitutional law on a freedom of speech. In due time Dzhejns dispatched on some hundreds thousand letters every day to the electronic addresses taken from stolen databases of companies America On Line and eBay.

In September, 2006 Dzhejnsa have planted in prison, and its sister who, under the version of consequence, helped Dzhejnsu to dispatch letters, has been fined for 7500 dollars.

It is necessary to note, that on rates of dispatches Dzhejns essentially lags behind the the colleague, the arrested person in the USA in May of the last year Alan Soloueja. This spammer offered potential customers dispatch of twenty millions letters for two weeks.

The Australian software producer has brought an action against the Internet forum

The Owner of the Australian site of IT-news Whirlpool has received the summons in court. Software company 2Clix demands from site AU$150000 for the negative statement about its products.

In the claim it is spoken that at a forum of a resource the reputation of the company has been discredited. So, in messages [" Anyone used 2Clix? " (" And what, somebody in general uses 2Clix? "), " 2Clix or Not 2Clix " (" 2Clix or Not 2Clix ")] users state the discontent in occasion of quality of software products, policy of the company, accuse it in a deceit of buyers, informs The Inquirer.

In the USA forums are protected from similar claims by clause 230 " the Certificate about norms of decency in telecommunications " (Communications Decency Act) according to which owners of the resources giving to users an opportunity to leave public messages, do not bear the responsibility for the maintenance of messages. In Australia the similar law is not present.

Google has demanded to carry out reforms in the patent legislation

Google company has demanded to carry out reforms in the patent legislation of the USA, to exclude cases of judicial claims from the various companies with the purpose to receive profit, using imperfection of laws. It is said in the official blog of Google by Michel Li (Michelle Lee), the chapter of a department of patents and patent strategy of the company, and Johanna Shelton, main Google lawyer.

As they said, the patent legislation of the USA is the extremely imperfect and because of it many large companies working in sphere of high technologies have to spend huge money for proceedings.
Possibly, the reason of such application is the last judicial claim from company Polaris IP which has accused Internet-companies among which Google, Yahoo! And Amazon, in illegal use of the patent for technology of processing e-mail messages.

Pensioner is a phone terrorist

Tomsk, Russia.

Pensioner, dissatisfied by the speed of his internet connection has reported by the phone about underming of the building of the local internet provider.

At the saturday the police have received a call about a bomb in the building of TOMTEL company. Immdeiately special forces of police have arrived, but they were not able to find a bomb. The call has turned to be faked. In an hour specialists have found the phone terrorist.

Police reporting: "the phone terrorist is a 60-year pensioner, unsatisfied by service support of his personal PC. Internet connection was slower than he waited for and he had to wait when computer games will be downloaded from the net."

The pensioner will be under the court in the nearest time.

AllOfMP3.Com is going on its work

Famous mp3 music online store AllOfMP3.com is going to continue its work. It's announced in the formal blog of the store, posted from 31 august 2007.

I would like to remind that AllOfMP3.com has been closed in July, 2007 because of foreign possessors of the rights and USA authorities. This web-site (like majority of Russian music web sites and stores) offered music using licences of societies of collective management of composer rights in spite of real licences of possessors of rights.

The general director of the "MediaServices" company and owner of the AllOfMP3.com web-site Denis Kvasov has been justified by the court because of absence of crime.

In the formal blog it is not said if the store is going to change the principle of its business.

All in all, such business is legal according to the Russian legislation, but closing of AllOfMP3.com was one of the most important obstacles in the way to WTO for Russia because it's symbolizing the dynamic of Russian market. There are loads of actions against Russian music providers and online stores. It seems to me that AllOfMP3.com is going to continue its work in the beginning of september. Let's see the response from the foreign countries.

The computer pirate is forced to change his OS to Windows

Very curious case has occured in the USA. The former manager of torrent-tracker EliteTorrents having a nickname sk0t (Scott Makkozlend) has been sentenced to five months of prison and five months of house arrest because skot has put on distribution an episode of " Star wars ". He has already been in the prison, time for the second part of punishment now has come. Guy has put on a radiobracelet on a wrist, and authorities decided to install on his personal computer program for shadowing to check all actions of the former pirate through the Internet.

But they have faced a very big problem. It has appeared, that the program for shadowing works only under Windows operating system, but condemned on the personal computer has established Ubuntu Linux. Without thinking twice, authorities have put Scott the ultimatum: or you format disk and establish Windows, or absolutely refuse using a computer.

Such punishment skot did not expect. Being in the prison he has still gone through, but daily use Windows has appeared above his forces. " I have communicated with the lawyer, - speaks Scott, - and we shall struggle with it. I am done not disturbed with the fact, that I will be watched, the matter is that to me will have completely to reconstruct the life (other OS, other programs)... It is simply ridiculous. Why I should be arranged under their software, in fact should be on the contrary? ".

Gmail is forbidden in Germany

According to the decision of court, Google cannot use name Gmail in Germany as it breaks trade mark G-mail belonging businessman Daniel Girsh. As specify in Google, the judicial verdict will not prevent to give service of Web-mail in the country which will be offered by the company under name Google Mail. Under the same name Gmail operates in the Great Britain where also was a corresponding brand. Google has put service of Web-mail into operation in 2004, and for today owns trade mark Gmail more than in 60 countries. According to representatives of the company, after promulgation by court of its reasons in favour of decision-making against Gmail in Google still can try to appeal against an interdiction in the Supreme court of Germany. As Girsh informed, he has registered trade mark G-mail in 2000, but Google conducts judicial struggle last three years. Under brand G-mail, as he said, he offers "hybrid" service which unites usual post and e-mail.

Russian programmer has been arrested

In the USA Russian programmer Roman Voznjuk has been arrested, writes The Wall Street Journal. He was accused of plundering of initial codes of American company Alibre Inc. Having copied codes, the Roman has returned home where authorities of the USA could not get him. Roman visited USA in the beginning of August. Voznjuk has been arrested on August, 6th in New York where he has arrived from Canada. Right after arrest he has been forwarded to Dallas where 4 years ago source codes have been stolen.

Floor Grejson, the founder of company Alibre, has told, that Roman Voznjuk was software developer up to the end of 2003. Then because of recession of demand for production Alibre he has got under reduction. After that Roman has returned to Russia as could not find other work in the USA.

Grejson marks, what source codes were exactly on the Russian servers for the first time. The source codes of RaceCAD - programs for spatial modelling and creation of virtual prototypes of various objects and products. Grejson speaks, that after detection of source codes in the Network has contacted Voznjuk and has demanded from it to stop distribution of codes, however correspondence in what has not resulted. Then Alibre has decided to bring an action. The court will be today - the lawyer of Roman will achieve its clearing on the security.