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.

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.

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.

No Freedom in Russia

There are loads of discussions in the Internet and press about this topic. Being in Russia for a long time I exactly can say that we have freedom only on the paper, only in the theory, in the law. But in the reality all world have seen our "freedom". Do you remember the latest "disagreeing march"? Such actions of Russian citizens are well-known all around the world: different countries such as Germany, USA and others have criticized our authorities and police because there were loads of people beaten by police.

But let's think about the freedom of press, there are so many books forbidden in Russia! Have you aver heard about it? One of bloggers have published a short list of books forbidden in Russia. He's commenting this situation in this way: "If the first three books are seemed to be extremist literature and I can understand why these books are arrested, destroyed and forbidden in our country, but it's impossible to understand being in this list book written by Stanislav Belkovskij "Business of Vladimir Putin". Because if there is a noise about a book this book exactly will be a bestseller!"

Exploring this theme in the Internet I've realised that there are loads and loads of books forbidden in Russia. The main label of site providing forbidden literature online is "You shouldn't allow somebody to decide what you can know and what you can't". I can only consent with this label. Of course, a lot of books should be forbidden for our children, but adult people should decide on their own what they should read.
The biggest collection of forbidden books and films I have seen on this web site. But I do not think that it will be able for a long time to book these books online, on this web site.

The foreign newspapers are writing that we do not have a democracy in Russia and it's really true! How can we have a democracy if all decisions are made by our authorities? It's impossible. The opposition is very appreciated in a lot of civilized countries, also the freedom of press and discussions are the base of the democracy. Now we have only one way to know real news: the Internet. But even there authorities are trying to make a censorship.