Don't count on lowered prices. Here in Sweden the tax for food in restaurants was halved to 12.5% a few years ago. That had zero effect on prices and restaurants profits simply increased.
The title says it was an "accident" which is incorrect. This was done with open eyes all the while security responsible protested and a lot of other IT people.
The director ordered this outsourcing project to continue and give access to the IBM contractors before they had been given security clearance. IBM's personnel are located in different countries such as Serbia, Poland, etc. The access is (still) administrative access to databases and data shares.
It's of course not just one big database but many. What's also not in the summary is that an encrypted inter-agency network was also exposed. Oops.
The motive of the (now ex) director's order was to speed up the project, because the transport agency otherwise would have issues with their daily work (issue driver licenses, etc.). The government has also been breathing down their necks to save money, hence this outsourcing (short-sighted madness).
It's a trainwreck from beginning to end, really. Heads will roll.
I've fled KDE before when they launched the public alpha as a major release. Since back then it's improved hugely in terms of performance and usability. I used to be a Gnome fan, but the new UI, while usable on the TV, is unusable on the dev box.
About the bling and widgets/plasmoids I just don't use them so they're not a problem. It's a way of attracting a certain user group.
This video is lame. What did these guys accomplish? It is kind of hard to tell. 10 projectors + smoke. A guy claims there is a sphere -- well I do not see it. Now he says he is walking inside the sphere. Still do not see it.
Okay, so everyone thinks the cost is directly financial. What about the cost in PR?
This company just got mentioned in article after article in just about every newspaper on the globe. No pretty headlines, either. Lax security. Leaked data again? Oh.
The direct cost might be possible to calculate - but the cost of no one trusting Sony with personal data could disrupt their online business entirely.
The rootkit disaster, as often mentioned, still sits in all of our minds and everyone we talk with. Do not underestimate the badwill. Want to be a contender? Do not fuck up - this economy will not allow it.
The cloud crap gets another black eye and this one is hardly deserving, considering the immense lack of competence security-wise on Sony's part.
Your question is interesting and one which many people ask themselves. I think it's more like people have one wallet to use and instead of spending money on music they kind of like they spend it on other things - just because they can get it by downloading. The total economic output is however more or less constant. I can only refer to my own spending statistics so feel free to contradict me. I don't put that same money in my savings account! I use it to go to the movies (5 of them past 6 months), fuel my car, go on vacation.
So the recent legislations in e.g. Sweden and the rest of Europe has nothing to do with economics, but rather only distribution of money and "fairness" to the companies. Of course, to succeed they must squash many citizen rights and deploy surveillance to keep citizens in check. One could argue that the win from such legislation really is nothing in comparison of how trampled the citizens become. Of course, the new legislation opens up a can of worms to further reduction of rights sort of like Pandora's box. We end up moving in the wrong direction if what we want is democracy.//S
This sort of obvious bullshit trials, bad defense lawyers withstanding, topped with ridiculous legislation really pushes the younger part of society, not yet indoctrinated, into anarchism. I usually state that I'm Swedish - we recently saw a "spectrial" (as The Pirate Bay called it) unfold, too.
Combine this with deaf politicians who refuse to listen to the (quite large) opposition and what do you have? You've got people contempt of law. I realize you need to build your own case and defend yourself, but even if you do, the playing field is uneven. I personally question the correctness of being able to monetize an idea/creative work for a life time. Most people outside of showbiz offers hard working labor - be it welding or consulting - for clients. We cannot profit from our monday 12'o'clock service for the rest of our lives. What's so got damn special with music or film?
I think, imagine at least, that people are growing more and more contemptuous to the powers that be. This is one failed business model - people recognize the absurdity of the situation. But when will this bullshit stop?
I'd had wished it'd be just like with SCO - touch and hard spirit then die a slow death in the media. Unfortunately, they have support from the government, who refuses to see the illogical conclusion that they need to work for their money (not just sell copies).//S
I think the primary concern is the different views on society that citizens, politicians and corporations have. A report that says that something is good for society isn't so clear cut as you'd like.
For corporations, long copyrights are good for society - they couldn't make quality music otherwise and people want quality music!
Lobbyists persuading politicians means that long copyrights are beneficial for society as well. After all, how would artists make a living otherwise? Very common argument these days and more or less what the common man is thinking, too.
Apparently the balloons need to be taken down daily to have their batteries recharched. I wonder, wouldn't 80,000-100,000 feet be mostly above cloud level and be an excellent opportunity to use solar cells?
The balloons come down every 24 hours due to the limitations of battery life -- and to keep them from floating into territories that don't subscribe to the service.
The drifting might be a tougher nut to crack though. Rather interesting idea for rural areas actually.
In case you didn't notice, the latest trend is that there are Corporations and Consumers. You are probably part of the Consumer segment and so a product of Society and can be sold to the Corporations.
Gosh, I just see a fair many obstacles to this tech which has many similarities to other systems (judging by the many references to other similar systems in TFA) and thus doesn't sound very revolutionary. But this one is browser based, so I guess, as TFA points out, it lowers the barriers to entry to a darknet. To me, this sounds like what it's about. Just click the link and be one with the dark side? Otoh the question is how it's supposedly used.
I admit I may look like an ass, but unless you've been hiding under a stone lately you'll have noticed that anything having to do with browsers and built-in tools is the shit of the century. So I guess my bullshit-o-meter gave a red reading. For some reason I'd rather like a solution below the application layer, so I can use all protocols while being anonymous. But we have that already. Almost at least, TOR has exit nodes that can easily be hosted by Bad Men.
Another interesting tech is OneSwarm, but it's not browser based and so not revolutionary.
Is this a late April Fools' joke? How does this supposed system work? It seems there must be a hosted PHP file somewhere - that server needs to have logs, at least if it's inside the EU and however you slice that you're toast.
Basically it seems to work sort of like a BitTorrent tracker that directs your client to other clients. So by what mechanism do you choose who to include in the "net"? If I understand correctly you sort of create channels for different purposes or groups. By using a introductory key? And how do you communicate that key? By encrypted e-mail? So any agencies that listen in on you very easily can see who you communicated with prior to your request for so and so domain holding the darknet PHP file? And how tough is that encryption? Ordinary SSL?
It connects the user's HTML 5-based browser to a single PHP file, which downloads some JavaScript code into the browser. Pieces of the file are spread among the members of the Veiled darknet. It's not peer-to-peer, but rather a chain of "repeaters" of the PHP file, the researchers say.
Spreads the file onto multiple peers? Is it possible for this file to run out of entropy in any way??
It's okay.. but don't make the mistake to think this is just about online privacy. This is offline privacy as well. How about having your cellphone tracked 24/7 and having those logs stored for 6 months. Or those hilarious SMS:es you sent while out partying, also stored for 6 months. This is now reality. Pretty rough awakening, don't you think? Not the most pressing matter? well perhaps not. We all value things differently. Me, I take my privacy way more serious than other EU matters or even the financial crisis.//castrox
This is one great big middle finger to the big parties who have ignored the privacy issues. Just this past month it's been very clear that the large parties are trembling because of the massive streams of voters who abandon them for the Pirate Party just because of these important issues. I really hope they will get with the program and realize that they can't dismiss the privacy debate and say that it's just a loud bunch who don't get it (the so called "pirates").
This directive will soon be passed. The reason this has taken so long is because it's an initiative taken by the previous party in lower (Social Democrats) and the current part(y|ies) (AKA The Alliance, moderates) in power doesn't like the leftists and the head of the judicial branch has been wining over this directive ever since day one. Nonetheless she is obligated to enforce the directive and says so herself. Even though she proclaims herself to be a integrity watchdog she's just as bad as the leftists.
Battle lost on that front.
The Pirate Party will however make it to the EU parliament this year and we can hope for some real change on these integrity issues.
You're missing the point. They don't believe in this themselves, but they need to say something outrageous so that the politicians - the sheep they are - will listen to them. They're now behaving like a spoiled child that doesn't get whatever it points at - shouting like crazy.
I'd really like a way to filter out all consumer BULLSHIT from the Internet so they'd leave it the fuck alone. But they LOVE the Internet - as long as they control it and this is precisely what they're aiming at. A wonderful, democracy, information, development tool is instead used as a fucking commercial channel.
I can't stand the fuckers, really. Keep your fucking music and movies and stay the fuck away.
Several experts in Sweden are calling for a re-trial with another judge.
It's somewhat embarrassing. The judge says that he made the call that his participation in "intellectual property groups" (upphovsrättsföreningar) did not bias him.
When the trial started a nämndeman (assistant to the judge) was dismissed because he was considered biased due to his profession as a composer.
It sure will be interesting to see how this one plays out. One might assert that the judge made a huge mistake by taking the case and thus wasting a tremendous amount of time and energy for both sides. Rather moronic for a judge, who should be able to see this type of conflicts.
I understand your critisism but I disagree that the best option to fight for our apparent right to download music is to simply ignore that media companies will bring your ass to court, fine you into oblivion and then in some weird way you win.
You cannot win this battle by filesharing copyrighted works unless you mean that once all file sharers are economically obliterated, there will magically not be any consumers left and the politics and market will (again) magically change?
I don't understand the master plan here. Feel free to enlighten me - I enjoy this conversation (see my e-mail if you're unwilling to post all twists and turns to slashdot). I for one won't hope for your premature death.
How are "all" affected negatively by my actions (and I don't mean this to be a statistical rebuttal)? If I and all the rest continue to download, what exactly will happen? Will they change the law so that once again, the media companies cannot ask for IP-address to identity resolutions? At what price? You're not asking for little, are you.
You see, the only way for that plan to have an effect is to actually wind up in court. If you continue to fileshare their crap and manage to dodge their radar you haven't accomplished shit! So in other words, you want me to sell my car, move to a smaller apartment, dress like a hobo and eat noodles every day. Wow, you're a brave guy, aren't you. Please don't lecture me on civil disobedience when you're taking jack risk.
Finally, the way you DO win this battle is on the political arena. Now, you might not be Swedish and so you cannot vote on the Pirate Party. I am and I surely will. Meanwhile I participate in protests and educate friends and family (and co-workers).
Whoah, that's quite some hostility. I'm sure you'll understand where I'm coming from once you read my comments and get a cool off break.
As someone else articulated: The game is rigged? Don't play the game.
I'm a fierce freedom activist. But continuing to support the media industry by filesharing their works (they do "own" them after all -- that's the current law -- let's respect it for a moment) is really a bad idea. My hope is that a sort of "open source" market will develop as people reject "the industry".
It's sad to see people like you, completely blinded by rage towards the media companies, attacking constructive ideas and the people behind them.
You make a good point, Kjella. I agree with you that my approach is not going to legalize filesharing copyrighted works without permission from the authors/rightsholders.
My point is that by stopping so called piracy, the market will find a way to provide us with services that we can accept. This is my sincere hope.
The Swedish law we're discussing basically boils down to that copyright owners can request the identity behind an IP-address from an ISP with permission from a court. If the artist gives permission, people can fileshare all they want. Again, this is what I hope will happen as the industry keeps chasing its customers.
I fail to see your point. Downloading stuff that the authors seems to completely hate you for is somehow Freedom?
No. That's a childish approach. With freedom comes responsibility. Now, I think the industry is behaving like a rabies dog but they're within their rights to disallow us to copy their material without giving them a krona.
Freedom is to being able to NOT BUY INTO THEIR SHIT. Accept their rules since it's in fact codified, but refuse to participate in transactions with them unless you're offered a FAIR DEAL and things YOU ACTUALLY WANT.
I, and I bet many others with me, don't think it's fun anymore. While a good many proceeds to download songs, movies and TV series using other protocols than e.g. torrents, there are those that recognize that it's not a sustainable situation. I stopped downloading questionable material the 31st of March.
Legislation will get worse and worse to the point where we are all under constant surveillance. We don't need to give "them" any more leverage to these draconian laws. We are in our right to fileshare on a personal level - that is, with friends and family. Let's stop filesharing with "strangers" and we're untouchable.
There's a huge discussion on obfuscation techniques and VPN solutions for consumers -- they're ignoring the upcoming EU directive on mandatory requirement to keep logs. Ergo, when anonymisation services keep logs, you're no longer anonymous.
I for one have "given up" my habits completely. I play by the rules set by the industry. If they cannot offer me what I want (unencumbered digital music), then I simply do not buy from them.
I also enjoy Spotify a great bit - the only thing I really miss is a service that lets me download TV series.
Lastly, the only torrents you'll see on my system is OSS like Debian and Ubuntu ISO:s.
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Don't count on lowered prices. Here in Sweden the tax for food in restaurants was halved to 12.5% a few years ago. That had zero effect on prices and restaurants profits simply increased.
The title says it was an "accident" which is incorrect. This was done with open eyes all the while security responsible protested and a lot of other IT people.
The director ordered this outsourcing project to continue and give access to the IBM contractors before they had been given security clearance. IBM's personnel are located in different countries such as Serbia, Poland, etc. The access is (still) administrative access to databases and data shares.
It's of course not just one big database but many. What's also not in the summary is that an encrypted inter-agency network was also exposed. Oops.
The motive of the (now ex) director's order was to speed up the project, because the transport agency otherwise would have issues with their daily work (issue driver licenses, etc.). The government has also been breathing down their necks to save money, hence this outsourcing (short-sighted madness).
It's a trainwreck from beginning to end, really. Heads will roll.
IAAS (I Am A Swede) as well..
I've fled KDE before when they launched the public alpha as a major release. Since back then it's improved hugely in terms of performance and usability. I used to be a Gnome fan, but the new UI, while usable on the TV, is unusable on the dev box.
About the bling and widgets/plasmoids I just don't use them so they're not a problem. It's a way of attracting a certain user group.
castrox
FUCK BETA.
This video is lame. What did these guys accomplish? It is kind of hard to tell. 10 projectors + smoke. A guy claims there is a sphere -- well I do not see it. Now he says he is walking inside the sphere. Still do not see it.
What the hell is this?
Okay, so everyone thinks the cost is directly financial. What about the cost in PR?
This company just got mentioned in article after article in just about every newspaper on the globe. No pretty headlines, either. Lax security. Leaked data again? Oh.
The direct cost might be possible to calculate - but the cost of no one trusting Sony with personal data could disrupt their online business entirely.
The rootkit disaster, as often mentioned, still sits in all of our minds and everyone we talk with. Do not underestimate the badwill. Want to be a contender? Do not fuck up - this economy will not allow it.
The cloud crap gets another black eye and this one is hardly deserving, considering the immense lack of competence security-wise on Sony's part.
Nerd fail! There can be only 21 million Bitcoins, see Wikipedia
Your question is interesting and one which many people ask themselves. I think it's more like people have one wallet to use and instead of spending money on music they kind of like they spend it on other things - just because they can get it by downloading. The total economic output is however more or less constant. I can only refer to my own spending statistics so feel free to contradict me. I don't put that same money in my savings account! I use it to go to the movies (5 of them past 6 months), fuel my car, go on vacation.
So the recent legislations in e.g. Sweden and the rest of Europe has nothing to do with economics, but rather only distribution of money and "fairness" to the companies. Of course, to succeed they must squash many citizen rights and deploy surveillance to keep citizens in check. One could argue that the win from such legislation really is nothing in comparison of how trampled the citizens become. Of course, the new legislation opens up a can of worms to further reduction of rights sort of like Pandora's box. We end up moving in the wrong direction if what we want is democracy. //S
This sort of obvious bullshit trials, bad defense lawyers withstanding, topped with ridiculous legislation really pushes the younger part of society, not yet indoctrinated, into anarchism. I usually state that I'm Swedish - we recently saw a "spectrial" (as The Pirate Bay called it) unfold, too.
Combine this with deaf politicians who refuse to listen to the (quite large) opposition and what do you have? You've got people contempt of law. I realize you need to build your own case and defend yourself, but even if you do, the playing field is uneven. I personally question the correctness of being able to monetize an idea/creative work for a life time. Most people outside of showbiz offers hard working labor - be it welding or consulting - for clients. We cannot profit from our monday 12'o'clock service for the rest of our lives. What's so got damn special with music or film?
I think, imagine at least, that people are growing more and more contemptuous to the powers that be. This is one failed business model - people recognize the absurdity of the situation. But when will this bullshit stop?
I'd had wished it'd be just like with SCO - touch and hard spirit then die a slow death in the media. Unfortunately, they have support from the government, who refuses to see the illogical conclusion that they need to work for their money (not just sell copies). //S
I think the primary concern is the different views on society that citizens, politicians and corporations have. A report that says that something is good for society isn't so clear cut as you'd like.
For corporations, long copyrights are good for society - they couldn't make quality music otherwise and people want quality music!
Lobbyists persuading politicians means that long copyrights are beneficial for society as well. After all, how would artists make a living otherwise? Very common argument these days and more or less what the common man is thinking, too.
Apparently the balloons need to be taken down daily to have their batteries recharched. I wonder, wouldn't 80,000-100,000 feet be mostly above cloud level and be an excellent opportunity to use solar cells?
The balloons come down every 24 hours due to the limitations of battery life -- and to keep them from floating into territories that don't subscribe to the service.
The drifting might be a tougher nut to crack though. Rather interesting idea for rural areas actually.
In case you didn't notice, the latest trend is that there are Corporations and Consumers. You are probably part of the Consumer segment and so a product of Society and can be sold to the Corporations.
That's where we're headed people!
Gosh, I just see a fair many obstacles to this tech which has many similarities to other systems (judging by the many references to other similar systems in TFA) and thus doesn't sound very revolutionary. But this one is browser based, so I guess, as TFA points out, it lowers the barriers to entry to a darknet. To me, this sounds like what it's about. Just click the link and be one with the dark side? Otoh the question is how it's supposedly used.
I admit I may look like an ass, but unless you've been hiding under a stone lately you'll have noticed that anything having to do with browsers and built-in tools is the shit of the century. So I guess my bullshit-o-meter gave a red reading. For some reason I'd rather like a solution below the application layer, so I can use all protocols while being anonymous. But we have that already. Almost at least, TOR has exit nodes that can easily be hosted by Bad Men.
Another interesting tech is OneSwarm, but it's not browser based and so not revolutionary.
Is this a late April Fools' joke? How does this supposed system work? It seems there must be a hosted PHP file somewhere - that server needs to have logs, at least if it's inside the EU and however you slice that you're toast.
Basically it seems to work sort of like a BitTorrent tracker that directs your client to other clients. So by what mechanism do you choose who to include in the "net"? If I understand correctly you sort of create channels for different purposes or groups. By using a introductory key? And how do you communicate that key? By encrypted e-mail? So any agencies that listen in on you very easily can see who you communicated with prior to your request for so and so domain holding the darknet PHP file? And how tough is that encryption? Ordinary SSL?
It connects the user's HTML 5-based browser to a single PHP file, which downloads some JavaScript code into the browser. Pieces of the file are spread among the members of the Veiled darknet. It's not peer-to-peer, but rather a chain of "repeaters" of the PHP file, the researchers say.
Spreads the file onto multiple peers? Is it possible for this file to run out of entropy in any way??
It's okay.. but don't make the mistake to think this is just about online privacy. This is offline privacy as well. How about having your cellphone tracked 24/7 and having those logs stored for 6 months. Or those hilarious SMS:es you sent while out partying, also stored for 6 months. This is now reality. Pretty rough awakening, don't you think? Not the most pressing matter? well perhaps not. We all value things differently. Me, I take my privacy way more serious than other EU matters or even the financial crisis. //castrox
This is one great big middle finger to the big parties who have ignored the privacy issues. Just this past month it's been very clear that the large parties are trembling because of the massive streams of voters who abandon them for the Pirate Party just because of these important issues. I really hope they will get with the program and realize that they can't dismiss the privacy debate and say that it's just a loud bunch who don't get it (the so called "pirates").
IAAS (I Am A Swede)
This directive will soon be passed. The reason this has taken so long is because it's an initiative taken by the previous party in lower (Social Democrats) and the current part(y|ies) (AKA The Alliance, moderates) in power doesn't like the leftists and the head of the judicial branch has been wining over this directive ever since day one. Nonetheless she is obligated to enforce the directive and says so herself. Even though she proclaims herself to be a integrity watchdog she's just as bad as the leftists.
Battle lost on that front.
The Pirate Party will however make it to the EU parliament this year and we can hope for some real change on these integrity issues.
You're missing the point. They don't believe in this themselves, but they need to say something outrageous so that the politicians - the sheep they are - will listen to them. They're now behaving like a spoiled child that doesn't get whatever it points at - shouting like crazy.
I'd really like a way to filter out all consumer BULLSHIT from the Internet so they'd leave it the fuck alone. But they LOVE the Internet - as long as they control it and this is precisely what they're aiming at. A wonderful, democracy, information, development tool is instead used as a fucking commercial channel.
I can't stand the fuckers, really. Keep your fucking music and movies and stay the fuck away.
Several experts in Sweden are calling for a re-trial with another judge.
It's somewhat embarrassing. The judge says that he made the call that his participation in "intellectual property groups" (upphovsrättsföreningar) did not bias him.
When the trial started a nämndeman (assistant to the judge) was dismissed because he was considered biased due to his profession as a composer.
It sure will be interesting to see how this one plays out. One might assert that the judge made a huge mistake by taking the case and thus wasting a tremendous amount of time and energy for both sides. Rather moronic for a judge, who should be able to see this type of conflicts.
I understand your critisism but I disagree that the best option to fight for our apparent right to download music is to simply ignore that media companies will bring your ass to court, fine you into oblivion and then in some weird way you win.
You cannot win this battle by filesharing copyrighted works unless you mean that once all file sharers are economically obliterated, there will magically not be any consumers left and the politics and market will (again) magically change?
I don't understand the master plan here. Feel free to enlighten me - I enjoy this conversation (see my e-mail if you're unwilling to post all twists and turns to slashdot). I for one won't hope for your premature death.
How are "all" affected negatively by my actions (and I don't mean this to be a statistical rebuttal)? If I and all the rest continue to download, what exactly will happen? Will they change the law so that once again, the media companies cannot ask for IP-address to identity resolutions? At what price? You're not asking for little, are you.
You see, the only way for that plan to have an effect is to actually wind up in court. If you continue to fileshare their crap and manage to dodge their radar you haven't accomplished shit! So in other words, you want me to sell my car, move to a smaller apartment, dress like a hobo and eat noodles every day. Wow, you're a brave guy, aren't you. Please don't lecture me on civil disobedience when you're taking jack risk.
Finally, the way you DO win this battle is on the political arena. Now, you might not be Swedish and so you cannot vote on the Pirate Party. I am and I surely will. Meanwhile I participate in protests and educate friends and family (and co-workers).
Whoah, that's quite some hostility. I'm sure you'll understand where I'm coming from once you read my comments and get a cool off break.
As someone else articulated: The game is rigged? Don't play the game.
I'm a fierce freedom activist. But continuing to support the media industry by filesharing their works (they do "own" them after all -- that's the current law -- let's respect it for a moment) is really a bad idea. My hope is that a sort of "open source" market will develop as people reject "the industry".
It's sad to see people like you, completely blinded by rage towards the media companies, attacking constructive ideas and the people behind them.
Don't play the game. Simple as that.
You make a good point, Kjella. I agree with you that my approach is not going to legalize filesharing copyrighted works without permission from the authors/rightsholders.
My point is that by stopping so called piracy, the market will find a way to provide us with services that we can accept. This is my sincere hope.
The Swedish law we're discussing basically boils down to that copyright owners can request the identity behind an IP-address from an ISP with permission from a court. If the artist gives permission, people can fileshare all they want. Again, this is what I hope will happen as the industry keeps chasing its customers.
Of course it bothers me with the slippery slope that is the surveillance legislation orgie, but this story and my comment is not on those issues.
I'm already a Pirate Party member.
What I realize is that continuing to fileshare copyrighted works is COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE to the cause.
By the way, I really am Swedish.
I fail to see your point. Downloading stuff that the authors seems to completely hate you for is somehow Freedom?
No. That's a childish approach. With freedom comes responsibility. Now, I think the industry is behaving like a rabies dog but they're within their rights to disallow us to copy their material without giving them a krona.
Freedom is to being able to NOT BUY INTO THEIR SHIT. Accept their rules since it's in fact codified, but refuse to participate in transactions with them unless you're offered a FAIR DEAL and things YOU ACTUALLY WANT.
I, and I bet many others with me, don't think it's fun anymore. While a good many proceeds to download songs, movies and TV series using other protocols than e.g. torrents, there are those that recognize that it's not a sustainable situation. I stopped downloading questionable material the 31st of March.
Legislation will get worse and worse to the point where we are all under constant surveillance. We don't need to give "them" any more leverage to these draconian laws. We are in our right to fileshare on a personal level - that is, with friends and family. Let's stop filesharing with "strangers" and we're untouchable.
There's a huge discussion on obfuscation techniques and VPN solutions for consumers -- they're ignoring the upcoming EU directive on mandatory requirement to keep logs. Ergo, when anonymisation services keep logs, you're no longer anonymous.
I for one have "given up" my habits completely. I play by the rules set by the industry. If they cannot offer me what I want (unencumbered digital music), then I simply do not buy from them.
I also enjoy Spotify a great bit - the only thing I really miss is a service that lets me download TV series.
Lastly, the only torrents you'll see on my system is OSS like Debian and Ubuntu ISO:s.
(Yes, I am Swedish.)