Twitter also has tons of spam, for example. Your point?
VK has much smaller team than, lets say, Yandex or Mail.ru. They still are leading social network in ex-USSR despite Facebook efforts.
We don't have DMCA-style safe harbor provisions in Russia.
But we do have landmark ruling, explaining when service provider are liable for users infringement. In this case Vkontakte wasn't found liable for infringement af a matter of fact. But they were sanctioned (for around $6500. Not much huh.) because social network wasn't fast enough after reported infringement. Actually they simply blocked search for artist and songs names (laughably easy to bypass) and haven't removed content.
People asked questions about technology on one russian tech forum. Founder dodged most of it when pointed that it won't work. I seriously doubt that they actually have technology. Whole thing looks like scam for stupid rightholders
When Google was celebrating 10 идт downloads they dropped prices on certain apps more than ten times (sometimes 20-30 times) - to mere 0.03 cents. The reports from app makers were astonishingly positive - they made more profit. When you have a product with pretty much zero marginal cost - you have a huuge window for price experiments.
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Do you know how many young russian artists use VK for promotion? Thousands.
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Right. So Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc etc etc apparently lack this one person with a clue on how to deal with spam.
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VK don't send spam anymore than FB or Twitter.
There are spammers on VK of course.
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Twitter also has tons of spam, for example. Your point?
VK has much smaller team than, lets say, Yandex or Mail.ru. They still are leading social network in ex-USSR despite Facebook efforts.
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Just wanted to point.
Vkontakte wasn't found liable for infringement. IFPI lied
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Except there are't any decent legal services in Russia.
And key functionality of VK is messaging and, well, social networking. By far.
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No, you simply can upload music and video and stream it from vk.com
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We don't have DMCA-style safe harbor provisions in Russia.
But we do have landmark ruling, explaining when service provider are liable for users infringement. In this case Vkontakte wasn't found liable for infringement af a matter of fact. But they were sanctioned (for around $6500. Not much huh.) because social network wasn't fast enough after reported infringement. Actually they simply blocked search for artist and songs names (laughably easy to bypass) and haven't removed content.
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Blizzard for a long time uses bittorrent to distribute game clients and updates. It's efficient.
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People asked questions about technology on one russian tech forum. Founder dodged most of it when pointed that it won't work. I seriously doubt that they actually have technology. Whole thing looks like scam for stupid rightholders
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So why did people freaked out when Brin said that Apple is an enemy of open web, again?
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Small note: Serbia is not in EU yet
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But it's sure easier for politicians to score lobbyists money (and maybe voters) on "Google is Evil!", so no one will speak up.
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It's Douglas Adams, may he rest in peace
http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html
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I thought trademarks were created to protect customers? How the hell trademark law is relevant in this case?
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When Google was celebrating 10 идт downloads they dropped prices on certain apps more than ten times (sometimes 20-30 times) - to mere 0.03 cents. The reports from app makers were astonishingly positive - they made more profit. When you have a product with pretty much zero marginal cost - you have a huuge window for price experiments.
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Last time i'v checked in US Netflix traffic overtaken bittorent traffic. Now why would that be..
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Easy Google news search would answer this question for you.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/08/veoh-lives-on-behind-the-acquisition-of-the-video-site/
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There is an anti-SOPA price written by russian minister of communications in today's Vedomosti paper (it's basically russian WSJ)
http://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/news/1480343/kodeks_povedeniya_v_seti
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Actually, I can watch Comedy central online just fine (Russia). Although it's probable sole exception.