Практически в каждом деле «за пиратку» присутствует так называемая «экспертиза». На ее разрешение ставится вопрос о том, имеются ли на изъятых носителях информации «признаки контрафактности». Делается это незаконно.

В 2006 году появился проект Antiplagiat.ru. СМИ писали, что сам министр образования "одобрил" внедрение этого проекта в ВУЗах. Но хотелось бы мне узнать, пользовались ли системой тот же министр и те же журналисты, которые так уверенно говорят об этом проекте, как удачном?

Russian federal service of drug circulation control (FSCD) released another videogame to prevent drug abuse. "Antinarcomania" arcade for kids and schoolchildren released in February was completed with a shooter "FSCD Fighter". Promoting their first game FSCD officials emphasized its positive and social nature as opposed to violence of common videogames or TV programs. However FSCD fighter's plot is not that innocent. A player acts as a secret agent. He is supposed to get into mafia and to inform his bosses in FSCD on how heroin would be transported from Colubmia to Russia. The game also brings political "education" delivering ideas like "the revenue from drug deals would be invested into international terrorism'.

RIPN officials and domain names Russian registrars are in discussion to make the publication of domain owners' private data optional. At the moment names and contacts of every domain holder in .RU is publicly available in RIPN's whois database. The deadline for RIPN to make changes meeting new rules of the Federal Law on private data is Jan,1 2010. The registrars are eager to complete it within few months.

Aleksandr Ponosov, a village school prinicipal sued for unlincesed Windows on school computers, was found guilty. The court evaluated Microsoft's loss at 266,000 rubles and sentenced Ponosov to 5,000 rubles penalty, although the company had no money claims to the convict and said it would be satisfied with his public apology. Still we may consider Aleksandr Ponosov lucky for he was sued before the new law with 5 years imprisonment for copyright violation came into force.