Border guards might have the power to search iPods, cellphones and computers for illegal downloads in future!

Today I read on slashdot.org very interesting article:

"The Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over customer information without a warrant. David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, characterizes ACTA this way: 'If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This is pretty close.'"

Ok, I agree it makes sense in some angle of view but will it really help? I think the only result will be that several internet services which give you the oportunity to save and store your data easily in crypted format will appear and before people approach the border everyone will erase their data on ipods, folders with movies and music on computers etc. After connection in hotel or somewhere else, they will easily download them back. Of course it will not be as simple as I described but definitely it migt look somehow like this. So if you want to settle new business maybe you should think about settling up this kind of service. In a few years a lot of people might desire to use it.

AdSense - tips for bloggers

A few days back I add to my blog AdSense advertising system and when I quickly saw first paid click I decided to do some research to find useful information how to optimize my site to gain a profit from it. Of course at the beginning I found a lot of trash as is "buy my book and I will give you advice how to have hundreds of thousands dollars from your blog". One of the best sites I found is http://www.problogger.net/ where the author writes about the AdSense and other ways of advertising systems and gives away nice tips. Probably best is this article divided into 8 parts. Even if the information are little old (2004-2005) and some of them are not relevant today but it is worth to read it because it is full of interesting tips and tricks especially for bloggers.

Part 1 - Adsense Tips for Bloggers 1
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Part 3 - An Equation for Success.
Part 4 - Increasing Traffic
Part 5 - High Paying Ads
Part 6 - Relevant Ads
Part 7 - Well Placed and Designed Ads
Part 8 - Miscellaneous Adsense Tips

There are also a lot of other interesting articles so reserve your time because if you want to try to gain some money from your blog this site is definitely worth your time.