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Pirate
Bay trial
Aren't
we all guilty, too, after all?
The Pirate Bay, which calls
itself "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker", was founded in 2003
by Piratbyrån, a Swedish organization
that advocates the free reproduction of files on the Internet. Although the service
actually provided by the site (file indexing) isn't considered illegal by the
Swedish law, in May 2006 their servers were seized by the police. It happened
again last year, which ended up leading to the trial... full
story By GABRIELA ZAGO from
Pelotas, BRAZIL
Web's
20th Anniversary
The
imaginary space of information Twenty
years ago Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN, a physics laboratory in Switzerland,
when he came upon idea that changed the way of our lives. He thought of joining
hypertext to the already existing Internet and getting all information needed
in one place. In a word, he created World Wide Web... full
story By LJILJANA SAMARD®IÆ from
Sombor, SERBIA
Uruguay's
"One Laptop per Child" policy
Small
changes in the Latin America's education reality
In
the world's most democratic developing country according to a research of the
Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany, 2008), the policy is also seem as a contribution
to the political integration between civil society and the state. With 300 thousand
computers, Uruguay was the first country to take concrete action in the program
and still keeps the title of the largest participation so far in the whole world,
a condition largely defended as one of the greatest realizations of the country's
government by its current administration... full
story By Jandré BATISTA from
Montevideo, URUGUAY
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