Sorry to disappoint you all, but he hasn't been arrested. The article just confirms what he wrote himself in an earlier post, that he was interrogated by the police for seven hours.
The poll on the right asks: "Do you think that it ought to be a criminal offence to crack protection codes?" The options are: (1) "Yes, that's why they're there." (2) "No, the media giants are over-protecting themselves." (3) "Only if it is exploited commercially."
The police has confiscated two of his computers and his cellular phone, and he has given his passwords to the police.
Crippling taxes? In the Netherlands? You've never been to Denmark, then! Here they add approximately 200% of the original price to a car. (This is not a typo: If the shop wants $10.000 for a car, the customer has to pay nearly $30.000.)
It is perfectly acceptable to buy a car anywhere in the EU and drive it in Britain.
Doesn't this create huge problems with the British driving on the left? After all, cars sold in Britain are built for that, and IMHO it's going to be somewhat stupid for the driver not to sit closest to the middle of the road.
Maybe this will finally make the Britains drive right!:-)
It's a long time since I was in the UK, so I don't remember whether people generally stick to the speed limits.
But people's attitude certainly is not the same in all countries. For instance, on Danish highways the speed limit is 110 km/h, but normal driving speed is appr. 130 km/h. It was so strange when I was in the Netherlands a couple of months ago to see how nobody (save the occasional foreigner or madman) exceeded the limits there.
So I'd say that Danes would be much more opposed to speed-regulating satelites than Dutchmen would.
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The poll on the right asks: "Do you think that it ought to be a criminal offence to crack protection codes?" The options are: (1) "Yes, that's why they're there." (2) "No, the media giants are over-protecting themselves." (3) "Only if it is exploited commercially."
The police has confiscated two of his computers and his cellular phone, and he has given his passwords to the police.
We really need to fight this!
Crippling taxes? In the Netherlands? You've never been to Denmark, then! Here they add approximately 200% of the original price to a car. (This is not a typo: If the shop wants $10.000 for a car, the customer has to pay nearly $30.000.)
Doesn't this create huge problems with the British driving on the left? After all, cars sold in Britain are built for that, and IMHO it's going to be somewhat stupid for the driver not to sit closest to the middle of the road.
Maybe this will finally make the Britains drive right! :-)
But people's attitude certainly is not the same in all countries. For instance, on Danish highways the speed limit is 110 km/h, but normal driving speed is appr. 130 km/h. It was so strange when I was in the Netherlands a couple of months ago to see how nobody (save the occasional foreigner or madman) exceeded the limits there.
So I'd say that Danes would be much more opposed to speed-regulating satelites than Dutchmen would.
Just my .02 Euro
I guess they could release it under both GPL and some other (e.g., the Artistic Licence).