“Runet today”, July 9, 2012. Experts of the issue: Yuri Virovets, Pavel Rogozhin
In the studio “Finam FM” - Yuri Virovets, head of the group of companies HeadHunter, and Pavel Rogozhin, director of development of the united company “Rambler-Afisha”. Together with the moderator, Maxim Spiridonov, they talk about interesting statistics on how the authorities and rightholders turned to Twitter, about closing a well-known music service, about voting on the anti-piracy law in the European Parliament, and about the elimination of five Google projects at once.
1. The microblogging service Twitter has published a report in which the statistics of appeals to the resource by the right holders and the authorities of various countries are presented.
- How often does Twitter follow the authorities? - On which sites do users most often listen to music? ')
2. The Scartel company, better known under the Yota brand, closed the Yota Muzyka service on July 1, which allowed listening to music without any copyright infringements.
- What are the problems of services trying to sell music in RuNet? - On which sites do users most often listen to music?
3. The European Parliament overwhelmingly refused to ratify the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement”, known by the acronym ACTA.
- Who lobbied for ACTA? - Is it necessary to regulate the Internet?
4. Google will close five of its services.
- Why did the corporation decide to close iGoogle and other services? - What other Google projects can be curtailed in the near future?