In the fall of 2003, students of Swarthmore College became participants in a political fight. They published information about the election process when 15,000 e-mail messages disappeared from one of the main voting machines (Diebold Election System) in the United States. Digital Millennium Copyright (D.M.C.A.), the law about intellectual property added them troubles. This [...]
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Presis #5. The Copyrights Problem
Posted in Precises, tagged art, copyright, model, music, problem, solvation on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Presis #4. How to Escape from Cyberbullies?
Posted in Precises, tagged abuse, bully, children, cyber, harassment, Internet on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They are everywhere. They think that they have unlimited power in the virtual space. Insolent and fearless, bullies feel superiority under their objects of persecution. But still you have a chance to defend yourself, your family and your friends from that kind of cyber attack.
About cyberbullying
With the help of every possible device a [...]
Reality of the Future
Posted in Precises on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Second Life is a virtual reality; a world that you can create yourself and live in. In 1999, it was build by Philip Rosendale, who started to collect the team, called Linden Lab, to care about Second Life. Second Life was sponsored by many people and companies, such as Mitch Kapor, Benchmark Capital and Ray [...]
Presis #3. Star Wars
Posted in Precises on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are only four main search systems on the Web with almost the same search engine. Yahoo bought many of them, including AltaVista and Google.
Unfortunately, Yahoo is going to step on its own tail in an attempt to turn everything into a profit. Then it made Google a major target, getting rid of paid [...]
Précis #2. Summary of three following articles: “Domain name disputes – an update”, “Julia, Jimi and cybersquatting: an update” and “Court dismisses Falwell domain name case”
Posted in Precises, tagged arbitration, celebrities, domain, name on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Development of the Internet creates discussions about it. New domain levels were introduced in usage. It brings a big impact to owners of trademarks and developers of sites.
After creating and evolving a new divisive plan by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) in January 1, 2000 and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute [...]
Precis #1. Summary of the article “Net neutrality proposal revived in Senate”
Posted in Precises, tagged Internet, Net, neutrality, Senate on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Better sooner than later: Republican from Maine, Senator Olympia Snowe and a Democrat from North Dakota, Senator Byron Dorgan got together their efforts and once again have put forth a measure aiming for Internet Neutrality, even though the bill was killed last year in the Senate.
This bill has eliminated the power of the [...]
