Tucked away in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km northeast of Moscow, Russian programming researcher Efim Bushmanov is getting a lot of attention. Having reverse engineered Skype protocols and then made his research available to the public via his blog just a few days ago on June 2, search queries bearing …
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30 year-old Efim Bushmanov from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km north-east of Moscow, a self described “free lance researcher,” claims he is on the way to completely reverse-engineer Skype’s proprietary protocol and encryption systems. “My aim is to make Skype open source and find friends who can spend many hours …
On 18 May 2011 the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC) issued a decree requiring the domain administrator of the www.mumm.ru site to cease using the domain name. The SAC has ruled that use of the name infringes the exclusive rights of champagne maker G.H. Mumm & Cie to the “Mumm” trademark.
Google has deleted from its search results the links to 446 pages of 106 pirate resources, which had illegally borrowed content owned by Eksmo, a leading Russian publisher. Among the blacklisted sites are Bookmir.ru, Fanknig.ru, and Kniga-free.ru, as well as torrent tracker Torrentino.com, reported Vedomosti, a Russian business daily.
Adobe Systems has won a civil suit against Sergey Mikirtumov, who has been ordered to pay the company 7,440,000 rubles (approximately $262,000) for selling and distributing pirated software. The damages award is the largest to be granted to Adobe in Russia, said Natalya Kalinina, a legal assistant for the firm that represented Adobe in the …
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Pirate Pay, a startup from Perm, and Ajatix, another one from Volgograd, have both received grant funding from the Microsoft Seed Finance Fund. The fund aims to provide direct financial support to startups in the areas of software and SaaS services. The fund was created in November 2010 in partnership with Skolkovo, the state sponsored …
The Ministry of Justice denied registration to the Pirate Party of Russia because the word “piracy,” in accordance with applicable law, is defined as an attack against ships at sea or on rivers and represents a criminal offense.
The Russian Supreme Arbitration Court settled the dispute between leading Russian television channel RTR and social network Vkontakte on the liability of the social network for the transfer and use of unlicensed content on the site. The court ruled that Vkontakte is not responsible for its users’ copyright violations.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) made public yesterday a list of 30 Internet and physical markets in various countries which “have been the subject of enforcement action connected with counterfeiting and piracy, or may merit further investigation for possible intellectual property rights (IPR) infringements.” Among them are Vkontakte.ru, Russia’s leading social …
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Microsoft has completed the most recent round of its piracy-monitoring program in Russia, a program that monitors the levels of unlicensed software in retail computer sales. Of 3,229 audited retail outlets in 94 Russian cities, about 20 percent offered pirated software to customers. Eleven percent of the audited retail outlets allowed preinstallation of pirated software.
The Russian Interior ministry announced that a criminal case has been opened against a 26 year-old Muscovite for having “replicated and disseminated” 18 copyrighted music recordings from his personal page on Vkontakte.ru. This followed a complaint from Nikitin, the Russian music company that owns the rights.
