У музыкальной индустрии остался только один шанс что-то продать мне - это показать что-то такое, во что я сильно влюблюсь. Настолько, что сам по доброй воле захочу купить это, а не скачивать из Интернета.

Ivan Begtin, the founder of Opengovdata.ru and Goslyudi.ru, has launched one more service about government official websites and state publicity on the Net - www.govweb.ru (“State network”)

Aim of the project is to monitor activity and publicity of State and some of its representatives on the Internet. “State network” has got a list of State bodies’ websites, and the ones designed on their request; State government bodies base, legal documents with set requirements for State bodies’ websites.

”It is just the beginning, all known areal and municipal State web-resources will be included in the list later on, likewise the websites of business entities, which are under State jurisdiction”, claims the project description.

Deputy absenteeism will be traced with special chips, reports RBK Daily. It should encourage the members of State Duma to visit sessions properly.

Rules Committee leader Otari Arshba claimed, that chips will be built in deputies’ ID cards. It is not planned to implant them yet. Built in chips will monitor the arrival and departure time. This will solve session absenteeism problem. The problem can hardly be called “made out of thin air”, and the President Dmitry Medvedev brought to notice that.

Fast project implementation might be the result of lately shown State Duma sessions. Ren-TV channel showed a report, where 88 deputies passed a law, having voted on behalf of 449 deputies. Those, who were concerned, could watch deputies “on duty” running along the rows and voting for their absent colleagues, on Youtube.

The State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov insists that personal presence at sessions has to be strictly defined by a law. There also have to be reflected circumstances, when a voice can be handed over by attorney.

Video streeming service Ivi.ru (Russian analogue of Hulu.com) has been put up for sale, informs Infox.ru. The owner, Digital Access company, wants to sell its 20-% share of the project for 10-15 million dollars.

Right now the company carries on negotiations with two media market players. “Digital Access private investors are concerned about the events, that have lately taken place on the Internet legal video market. Among them are: entry of a new competitor, partnership termination between Viacom (the USA) media holding and online platform hulu.com”, - said the source close to Digital Access.

About 8 million dollars were invested in the project during the launch, 5-7 of them were spent on licenses. We remind, that Ivi.ru owns some content of Central Partnership, “Amedia”, TNT, STS and others.

The Internet-cinema Ivi.ru officially opened at the end of February 2010, and in May 2010 a competitor Zoomby.ru appeared on the Internet.

Famous Russian LiveJournal blogger "dobrokhotov" (Roman Dobrokhotov) admitted the publication of paid post, allegedly ordered under PR-campaign to create a positive image of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Dobrokhotov assures his blog readers that his direct employer was the manager of an advertising agency. He promised 2000 rubles for the first post and 1000 for every following one, and at the same time, told the details of the campaign - in particular, named highly valued personalities, which directly communicate with the Ministry of Internal Affairs (they are: journalist Natalia Radulova and professional blogger Maxim Alexandrov).

Dobrokhotov also says the police is not actually so bad, and that MIA attempts to whitewash itself in the blogosphere deserves understanding. But he personally stands for honesty.

Webplanet.ru got in touch with Maxim Alexandrov and asked him whether he had been paid by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the "compliment". Maxim said he hadn’t received money for the posting.

RuNet is talking about creating the next Pirate Party. Social network "Vkontakte" became a “tongue” of the virtual movement, for the pirate community appeared on its pages - http://pirateparty.vkontakte.ru/.

Participants of the "pirate" group (at the time of writing the article - almost 4,000 people) are extensively discussing the "code of honor”, looking for activists who are ready to engage in the future party affairs and other issues. One of the issues is Alexander Аkopov’s (“Amedia” head) statement on "piracy” of Vkontakte.ru and 30 million of the social network criminal users. Akopov announced his intention to deal with the administration of the resource.

State Duma deputy Konstantin Rykov and his support team, are among the pirate team management. It is worth mentioning, that Rykov had long claimed on the harmfulness of the current struggle with the spread of counterfeit.

Rykov’s newspaper "Vzglyad" supported "Vkontakte", calling the statements of "Amedia" an "incorrect self-praise."

"Akopov is strongly wrong, calling the criminals 30 million users. He apparently did not understand that insulted his loyal fans. Because only the ones who love "Amedia" TV series want to have them on their pages and share them with friends. And now, if I were in the users’ shoes, I would sue "Amedia" for insult ", - said Konstantin Rykov.

Community, by the way, seems to be preparing lawsuits - though not the fact, they will dare to reach the court.

At the moment, pirate activists’ actions are limited to an endless stream of emotional messages to Twitter, communication within the "Vkontakte" group, and press statements. It is not clearly understood, what the community is protesting against, and what principles and ideas they advocate.

We remind that the Pirate Party of Russia has existed since 2006 and is the official founding member of the international movement of Pirate Parties International (PPI).