they will all play governments game

maybe one day..

when the people are too poor to afford luxury goods and have nothing better to do than sit and THINK about the mess they now live in…

Just say no to throwing non violent file sharers in jail to have their anuses pounded by gangland’s disease ridden horse sized cocks to inject semen into the quivering geek hineys.

“Plusgiro” account: 115 99 42-0

All donations will go to paying fines, damages and trial costs. Any eventual remaining funds will be passed on for similar purposes. If there is no conviction there is a possibility to get your donation back.

Only write your name and city if you DON’T want to be anonymous. If you want to be repaid if there is no conviction, please provide your account number

The list below will be updated roughly every three days.”

“Plusgiro” accounts are special Swedish accounts that historically have been handled by the postal service, now by a bank. For international transfers you need a BIC (Bank Identifier Code) and a IBAN (International Bank Account Number). The BIC for the Plusgiro bank, Nordea Bank AB, is NDEASESS. The IBAN I don’t know, but it’s NOT the same as the normal account number on the page – it’s supposed to be a 24 digit code. So for now it looks like you can only donate if you are in Sweden, or otherwise can use Plusgiro accounts. =(

The account number is on the right, if you want to donate anything to him.

The minister of justice doesn’t seem to get the point. If ISPs give out IP numbers and only one fifth (23000./4530.) of the accusation is true, four fifth of the accusation will be libel cases.

WHile I have as much love for the music industry as the next man this isn’t really correct.

“They” do not give songs away for “free” on the radio. Radio companies pay the record labels to be able to play the songs.

Migtht as well say that itunes is giving away songs for “free”.

DO NOT click on that link or you’ll get ricko’d and it sucks!!

Let this be a lesson to all of you, in the unlikely event that the same should happen to you: save the talk to your day in court, and answer any, but the most harmless questions, from the police investigators with “That’s for me to know and for you to find out”.

Most countries have laws similar to the US 5th Amendment — use that option to it’s extreme and you’ll most probably walk free!

Just a small but important point. Radio broadcast has never been free. You “pay” for the privilege of listening to the music by being a captive audience for the advertising. The music Itself was considered an advertisement for the purchasable media. And since it was at a poor quality, often spoken over and could only be recorded in a time consuming process, it was considered an acceptable loss if people taped it.

Due to the new dynamic created by file sharing, and interesting projects like pandora and last.FM I think there will soon be little need for broadcast radio. I see commercial radio having even less diversity in the future… It will be one long musical ad that you will only listen to if you are really bored or stupid.

Expect any remaining specialty and niche broadcast to be gone very soon unless it is publicly supported, like a college station or an eclectic weekend show on public radio.

So I doubt you will even find most of the music you would be interested in downloading playing on your local stations anyway. I know this is already true where I live and has been for many years, I would say 90% of my music collection has never been played on commercial radio in this market. So to say “they give it away free on the radio” is just not true, and never has been.

Just somthing to think about, thanks for humoring me.

And yes it sucks that this poor guy got sued. I hate to see it happen. Clearly, it is not the answer.

I can’t help but feel partially responisble though – Whatever bullshit he was charged with I’m prpbably guilty of too. It would be nice to see the community get together and show the guy some support, if there was any way that we could help him pay his fine, we should.