1) there's a difference between lawyers in court and citizens outside of court speaking their mind -- clearly they're equivalent!
2) there's a difference between laws of the United States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden -- clearly, these Swedish judges should not tolerate disrespectful attitudes towards American law!
OK. I'm laughing:
enough to prove that those guys treat the law as a joke they can ignore
Did you not understand that this trial is a Swedish trial? American law actually is a joke until it's applicable in Sweden.
The prosecution was caught red-handed both 4th and 5th day and the defense once again protested this method of trying to throw the defendants off guard with new material, saying things such as "you've done this all week -- have you not learned anything at all?" and "this is starting to look like an American movie trial -- we request you hand over ALL material NOW".
The court took a break for discussions. After 10 minutes the court informs the prosecution that they must hand over any material they have not already handed over and which they wish to use in their case. The prosecution, specifically Danowski, acts like a 5-year-old and says "but.. the problem, your Honor, is that I don't know if it's necessary, so.. [I wish not to, is the meaning of this]", which the court immediately smacks down with "the meaning of the court's decision is that all material, any material, not presented to the defense, that you wish to use, must be handed over NOW".
The prosecution clearly was very disappointed that they weren't allowed to play cowboys in court.
The prosecution also tried to snare Peter Sunde with a lot of documents found on the web.. Danowski tried to make it look like Peter Sunde had said things he hadn't said with the help of [ square brackets! ] which Peter Sunde kindly informed is a way to insert 3rd party information, or reflection, on a quote. The prosecution is going about with rather dirty tactics.
Prosecution lawyer Monique Wadsted questions Carl Lundstrom, pleading not guilty and having nothing to do with TPB, calling TPB illegal, trying to have him label it as illegal as well. The defense protests, luckily. Got damn industry lawyers...
The future of file-sharing will be just like the old days, only better!
While it's nice with torrent sites and all, it enables anyone to see who's downloading and uploading what on a single torrent. This clearly is the approach copyright holders are going to take in Sweden.
Now, I agree that the artists should be able to make money. Just not these silly amounts they dream of! The cost of creative works is declining every day with the availability of the heaps of content already available from many decades and even centuries. "New" is a thing fewer and fewer appreciate when faced with all this other older, great, music.
Hey, we've got at least 16 gigabytes of USB thumb drives! It will be just like passing dope in the hallways. It's insane, the amounts of data easily transferable from friend to friend. Kill Internet file-sharing and see the music market stagnate because no one is buying shit they didn't even hear about. New single-album-artists will take decades to market!
Meanwhile, real artists with real skill will sell as they always has been. They won't be making millions off records or digital copies, but will have to lift their asses to go touring and give the consumers something they are willing to pay for.
The Committee on Legal Affairs says in the report labeled "REPORT on the outlook for copyright in the EU":
48. Approves the action taken by various national judicial systems against internet sites that illegally disseminate works on line (e.g. "The Pirate Bay");
Which in my view is equivalent to judge The Pirate Bay without any legal trial. It's not some hippie committee on agriculture or whatever. Writing like this just shows they've already made up their mind before trial. Mind you, I realize this is an EU committee, but in case you haven't noticed, Sweden has been following the EU's advice quite throroughly lately.
This trial is guaranteed to be unfair even from the start. The EU has released the so called Medina report, already judging the defendants as guilty. The report was issued several weeks ago. This way the judges already know how to judge these individuals, so things are kept simple!
I guess this trial will mean that linking to copyright infringing material will be illegal. Possibly they will make it so it will be illegal if there's an intent which of course will be all the battle.
Why do people care who runs GNU/Linux and who does not? GNU/Linux marketshare is abysmal and still the community is pulling in support from hardware and software vendors, which is great!
What I don't get is this whole "PLEASE RUN LINUX!"-shit. Who cares? So, run Mac OS or Windows, good on ya. As long as we've got open standards, it doesn't make any difference at all what operating system you run on your computer. Frankly, it's mostly boring, in the end.
It seems the politicians are just having a nervous BREAKDOWN all over the place. If it's not about increasing surveillance, it's fighting terrorism, increasing copyright timespan and frankly, just about anything that's NOT BENEFICIAL OF CITIZENS AT ALL.
I'm so tired of all this. I was seriously thinking of giving up the fighting but instead I joined the Pirate Party (Sweden). They push their core ideas such as integrity, freedom of expression and freedom to fileshare copyrighted works (that one I don't care that much about).
I absolutely have lost interest of the politics concerning e.g. healthcare, economics, welfare, defense, infrastructure and what have you. I'm 100% focused on the integrity issues - because, if we have no private life, what the fuck do we have exactly?
Each and every one party in Sweden is pushing their agenda on the surveillance except for the Pirate Party which is non-negotiably against. Parties traditionally very concerned with integrity issues have been completely HIJACKED and are now pro-surveillance. Just the past year Sweden is about to: 1) Let the state wiretap the entire country (with un-supportable claims that this will only be done to connections crossing the border) 2) Give copyright-holders the privilege to ask an ISP for the identity behind an IP-address (what the FUCK? Swedish RIIA) 3) Implement the EU directive to store traffic data (SMS, MMS, E-mail, web, telephone, cellphone) at the very least 6 months. By the way, this includes position data - now everyone carrying a cellphone can be tracked (at least 6 months back - do you remember where you were 6 months back??). Brilliant! Swedish politicians wants to go further than this and require 1-2 years of storage.
I've had it. The politicians are so fucking ignorant that I just want to vomit. This state is in a state of hijack and it's fucking time to revolt. The Pirate Party is gaining voters.
Earlier today I sent an e-mail to the Swedish Security Police (something akin of an investigative police concering itself with e.g. terrorism) asking its head judicial if they have completely lost their mind. Haven't received an answer yet.
This whole surveillance thing makes me queasy. I cannot for the life of me begin to understand the politicians reasoning for fucking up this (past) democracy like this.:-((
No offense but wiping out configuration during upgrades sounds a lot like a poor admin job. Forgetting drives sounds like a hardware issue.
Of course, I only run md on one machine and not hundreds of them so I guess I can't relate. I'm quite happy with the performance as well - it's near the theoretical maximum considering a configuration of 4 disks each maxing out at 65 MB/s read.
Okay you had me worried there for a sec.. I run an md rig of 4 disks (raid1 and raid5). I think it works beautifully. Never had any problems in 1.5 years since I installed it. So in what respect is md "completely broken"?
I do not want a larger OS - I want an OS optimized for gaming.
It seems to me that you are not Microsoft's target audience. What Microsoft wants is for you to get an X-Box and work and play media on your Vista installation
Remember back when Java Swing applications felt slow and un-optimized? That's how the entire.Net written apps feel like for me (are they HTML and Javascript or what?). Take Visual Studio for example. Try running VS 2005 on a machine with 1 core and 1 GB memory, you'll see what I mean. The scrolling menues are lagging back and forth.
I work with SQL2005 for a living and I'm thankful I at least got 2 cores and 3 GB memory (using XP) which allows these applications to run smoothly.
The fact is that this issue is growing exponentially, gathering a massive opposition to this legislation. It finally, after much attempts to alert the media, feels like the issue has reached each and every Swede and many people outside of Sweden. It feels, in short, GOOD.
The sitting government is just now being shot at from every direction. ALL parties (left, center and right) "youth communities" (big thing here) are against the legislation - that's some heavy critisism!
The Prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, has actually expressed his thoughts on the matter in the media as thus: "We would all be better off if the debate dissipated." After which he was immediately flamed by all camps for saying the Swedish people are idiots.
The Defense minister, Sten Tolgfors, has made a fool out of himself by pleading that the state has no ill intentions and that they would never be able to wiretap each and every citizen (a pretty idiotic claim to begin with, completely missing the issue at hand).
Now the Defense minister admits that they want to get their hands on Russian traffic which might be seen as completely obvious. It's yet another input to Echelon of course.
As we speak, the wiretap legislation debate is top dog in most of the big news papers in Sweden - we might have a shot at tearing it up.
This september a demonstration is scheduled in Stockholm - then we will burn out politicians at the stake. Which us luck!
Small bits and pieces my friend. Mostly curious articles blowing in the wind. Nothing serious. We get mad proposals every once in a while - that's no reason to think they'd go through. This one, however, all of a sudden has broad support in the Government and parties in the Parliament - opposite to what anybody sane would think.
Also, people are slow - they reject it until it's in their faces and they are forced to act. Most people think that spying on the enemies is a good thing, but they never realized that they themselves, and their neighbors, would be wiretapped. That's why the uproar.
They would just say, "Hey Bill [in the U.S.]... did you get that? We have him clearly visible now. Oh, AES is it? You need help with the brute force? Sure thing."
Sweden reports to the U.S. and vice versa. This is fact. I don't think they'd cut you off transmitting. In any case they would make it easier for you in order to get you to talk more and contact the rest of your terrorist buddies in the good old Soviet.
Here are two facts: 1) Google already said they will not place any servers in Sweden, in case the law goes through. 2) Sweden's prime minister in conjunction with the defense minister fairly recently (no exact estimate) signed a treaty with the United States of America with the express purpose of sharing information obtained with wiretapping. Sweden's and the U.S. systems will be "integrated" and experience shared.
Ergo: big business have already identified this threat and we've already established a nice contract with the U.S. Telia, the largest ISP in Sweden, moved mail servers to Finland because their Finnish customers were getting worried.
No. Defending MS is admirable. But your argument and logic is flawed considering that you completely disregard that Microsoft is a monolopy and a different ruleset applies to them.
Re-think your position WITHOUT disregarding the monolopy situation.
I live in Sweden. We're sort of secularized and seeing religious evangelists on TV (except perhaps fiction) is very uncommon. I must confess I haven't been to church in 18 years.. and by then I was a kid.
My last trip to New York offered me new insight on this though. While changing channels I saw a fair deal of (weird) christian stuff.
What *I* really don't get is why people don't just call Scientology for what it is: a sect. That way people who never heard of them will be better prepared when meeting a recruiting member and on guard.
Insisting that they are a Church really isn't fair to the other religions humanity knows. Nevermind they use a name with "church" in it (not in Israel..!). AFAIK Scientology is a company run by greedy, manipulative lunatics for sheer profit.
The weak minded and gullible are indoctrinated and *scammed* (which is an important point) by their people.
Come to think of it.. it is actually hard to draw a line what a church is. In the old times the christian Church scammed its members aswell (and banished its non-members). Scientologists are, as it seems, prohibitively aggressive.
The really interesting thing is that all these artists are old-timers whose glory days are long gone. All their work was produced (mostly) way back.
This really brings out the real trouble with the system. Somehow music is a perpetual machine in terms of money making. Now, I get that if someone uses your songs in order to MAKE MONEY, then they should give some back to you (since you're alive), since your work is obviously making money.
But going after file sharers just seems rather absurd to me especially since the artists considered haven't produced anything new in quite a while and so just wants free lunch. It DOES seem very greedy to me.
The current AI involved with Chess (and Go) are search-based. To me, search-based AI is just a dumb AI which can at most say that one strategy is better than another - which mostly is based on heuristics.
Afaik Big Blue had no reasoning behind its moves - just a vast bank of possible moves of which some were rated as better based on previous games by other master players.
It's even theorized that a semi-pro could have been more successful meeting Big Blue since the game style Big Blue used was on par with Kasparov which is different from a semi-pro.
Also, go is a number of magnitudes worse in complexity than chess (the larger spaces) which is why it is tough to "solve" - we can't store the entire solution set or search through it fast enough.
Search-based AI = stupid AI. Albeit efficient and sufficient at many tasks, it's not real AI.
I have now completely lost all my belief in mankind. This interesting new business model seems to be catching on to more and more business as they grow: the customer is your enemy.
Business has been reduced to spreadsheets with no touch with what the actual core business is. Sure, just outsource the core business and let the patents and lawsuits roll!
Leopard understands the Windows FAT32 disk format. Okay.. so Leopard understands FAT32. Previous versions of OS X *doesn't*? Or is this a typo meant to be NTFS? Or doesn't/didn't OS X have support for NTFS (either)??
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Gee, I wonder if
1) there's a difference between lawyers in court and citizens outside of court speaking their mind -- clearly they're equivalent!
2) there's a difference between laws of the United States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden -- clearly, these Swedish judges should not tolerate disrespectful attitudes towards American law!
OK. I'm laughing:
enough to prove that those guys treat the law as a joke they can ignore
Did you not understand that this trial is a Swedish trial? American law actually is a joke until it's applicable in Sweden.
The prosecution was caught red-handed both 4th and 5th day and the defense once again protested this method of trying to throw the defendants off guard with new material, saying things such as "you've done this all week -- have you not learned anything at all?" and "this is starting to look like an American movie trial -- we request you hand over ALL material NOW".
The court took a break for discussions. After 10 minutes the court informs the prosecution that they must hand over any material they have not already handed over and which they wish to use in their case. The prosecution, specifically Danowski, acts like a 5-year-old and says "but.. the problem, your Honor, is that I don't know if it's necessary, so.. [I wish not to, is the meaning of this]", which the court immediately smacks down with "the meaning of the court's decision is that all material, any material, not presented to the defense, that you wish to use, must be handed over NOW".
The prosecution clearly was very disappointed that they weren't allowed to play cowboys in court.
The prosecution also tried to snare Peter Sunde with a lot of documents found on the web.. Danowski tried to make it look like Peter Sunde had said things he hadn't said with the help of [ square brackets! ] which Peter Sunde kindly informed is a way to insert 3rd party information, or reflection, on a quote. The prosecution is going about with rather dirty tactics.
Prosecution lawyer Monique Wadsted questions Carl Lundstrom, pleading not guilty and having nothing to do with TPB, calling TPB illegal, trying to have him label it as illegal as well. The defense protests, luckily. Got damn industry lawyers...
The future of file-sharing will be just like the old days, only better!
While it's nice with torrent sites and all, it enables anyone to see who's downloading and uploading what on a single torrent. This clearly is the approach copyright holders are going to take in Sweden.
Now, I agree that the artists should be able to make money. Just not these silly amounts they dream of! The cost of creative works is declining every day with the availability of the heaps of content already available from many decades and even centuries. "New" is a thing fewer and fewer appreciate when faced with all this other older, great, music.
In the older days, we could not lay our hands on that content. Come Internet, the market completely changed. (Thinking of the "Long tail"-concept. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Long-Tail-Revised-Updated-Business/dp/1401309666/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234693596&sr=8-1)
Hey, we've got at least 16 gigabytes of USB thumb drives! It will be just like passing dope in the hallways. It's insane, the amounts of data easily transferable from friend to friend. Kill Internet file-sharing and see the music market stagnate because no one is buying shit they didn't even hear about. New single-album-artists will take decades to market!
Meanwhile, real artists with real skill will sell as they always has been. They won't be making millions off records or digital copies, but will have to lift their asses to go touring and give the consumers something they are willing to pay for.
Bye bye Karma
The Committee on Legal Affairs says in the report labeled "REPORT on the outlook for copyright in the EU":
48. Approves the action taken by various national judicial systems against internet sites that
illegally disseminate works on line (e.g. "The Pirate Bay");
This is from (PDF-warning) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A6-2009-0017+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN
Which in my view is equivalent to judge The Pirate Bay without any legal trial. It's not some hippie committee on agriculture or whatever. Writing like this just shows they've already made up their mind before trial. Mind you, I realize this is an EU committee, but in case you haven't noticed, Sweden has been following the EU's advice quite throroughly lately.
This trial is guaranteed to be unfair even from the start. The EU has released the so called Medina report, already judging the defendants as guilty. The report was issued several weeks ago. This way the judges already know how to judge these individuals, so things are kept simple!
I guess this trial will mean that linking to copyright infringing material will be illegal. Possibly they will make it so it will be illegal if there's an intent which of course will be all the battle.
It's time to vote for the Pirate Party.
More info:
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/MedinaOrtega_INI-report-Copyright_JURI-consolidated
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/copyright-dogmatism-ridiculously-strikes-european-parliament
Greetings from a sad Swede
Why do people care who runs GNU/Linux and who does not? GNU/Linux marketshare is abysmal and still the community is pulling in support from hardware and software vendors, which is great!
What I don't get is this whole "PLEASE RUN LINUX!"-shit. Who cares? So, run Mac OS or Windows, good on ya. As long as we've got open standards, it doesn't make any difference at all what operating system you run on your computer. Frankly, it's mostly boring, in the end.
GNU/Linux is a CHOICE and that's enough for me.
What is happening with the world? Seriously..?
It seems the politicians are just having a nervous BREAKDOWN all over the place. If it's not about increasing surveillance, it's fighting terrorism, increasing copyright timespan and frankly, just about anything that's NOT BENEFICIAL OF CITIZENS AT ALL.
I'm so tired of all this. I was seriously thinking of giving up the fighting but instead I joined the Pirate Party (Sweden). They push their core ideas such as integrity, freedom of expression and freedom to fileshare copyrighted works (that one I don't care that much about).
I absolutely have lost interest of the politics concerning e.g. healthcare, economics, welfare, defense, infrastructure and what have you. I'm 100% focused on the integrity issues - because, if we have no private life, what the fuck do we have exactly?
Each and every one party in Sweden is pushing their agenda on the surveillance except for the Pirate Party which is non-negotiably against. Parties traditionally very concerned with integrity issues have been completely HIJACKED and are now pro-surveillance. Just the past year Sweden is about to:
1) Let the state wiretap the entire country (with un-supportable claims that this will only be done to connections crossing the border)
2) Give copyright-holders the privilege to ask an ISP for the identity behind an IP-address (what the FUCK? Swedish RIIA)
3) Implement the EU directive to store traffic data (SMS, MMS, E-mail, web, telephone, cellphone) at the very least 6 months. By the way, this includes position data - now everyone carrying a cellphone can be tracked (at least 6 months back - do you remember where you were 6 months back??). Brilliant! Swedish politicians wants to go further than this and require 1-2 years of storage.
I've had it. The politicians are so fucking ignorant that I just want to vomit. This state is in a state of hijack and it's fucking time to revolt. The Pirate Party is gaining voters.
Earlier today I sent an e-mail to the Swedish Security Police (something akin of an investigative police concering itself with e.g. terrorism) asking its head judicial if they have completely lost their mind. Haven't received an answer yet.
This whole surveillance thing makes me queasy. I cannot for the life of me begin to understand the politicians reasoning for fucking up this (past) democracy like this. :-((
No offense but wiping out configuration during upgrades sounds a lot like a poor admin job. Forgetting drives sounds like a hardware issue.
Of course, I only run md on one machine and not hundreds of them so I guess I can't relate. I'm quite happy with the performance as well - it's near the theoretical maximum considering a configuration of 4 disks each maxing out at 65 MB/s read.
You mean the fact that md is completely broken
Okay you had me worried there for a sec.. I run an md rig of 4 disks (raid1 and raid5). I think it works beautifully. Never had any problems in 1.5 years since I installed it. So in what respect is md "completely broken"?
I do not want a larger OS - I want an OS optimized for gaming.
It seems to me that you are not Microsoft's target audience. What Microsoft wants is for you to get an X-Box and work and play media on your Vista installation
Remember back when Java Swing applications felt slow and un-optimized? That's how the entire .Net written apps feel like for me (are they HTML and Javascript or what?). Take Visual Studio for example. Try running VS 2005 on a machine with 1 core and 1 GB memory, you'll see what I mean. The scrolling menues are lagging back and forth.
I work with SQL2005 for a living and I'm thankful I at least got 2 cores and 3 GB memory (using XP) which allows these applications to run smoothly.
The fact is that this issue is growing exponentially, gathering a massive opposition to this legislation. It finally, after much attempts to alert the media, feels like the issue has reached each and every Swede and many people outside of Sweden. It feels, in short, GOOD.
The sitting government is just now being shot at from every direction. ALL parties (left, center and right) "youth communities" (big thing here) are against the legislation - that's some heavy critisism!
The Prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, has actually expressed his thoughts on the matter in the media as thus: "We would all be better off if the debate dissipated." After which he was immediately flamed by all camps for saying the Swedish people are idiots.
The Defense minister, Sten Tolgfors, has made a fool out of himself by pleading that the state has no ill intentions and that they would never be able to wiretap each and every citizen (a pretty idiotic claim to begin with, completely missing the issue at hand).
Now the Defense minister admits that they want to get their hands on Russian traffic which might be seen as completely obvious. It's yet another input to Echelon of course.
As we speak, the wiretap legislation debate is top dog in most of the big news papers in Sweden - we might have a shot at tearing it up.
This september a demonstration is scheduled in Stockholm - then we will burn out politicians at the stake. Which us luck!
Small bits and pieces my friend. Mostly curious articles blowing in the wind. Nothing serious. We get mad proposals every once in a while - that's no reason to think they'd go through. This one, however, all of a sudden has broad support in the Government and parties in the Parliament - opposite to what anybody sane would think.
Also, people are slow - they reject it until it's in their faces and they are forced to act. Most people think that spying on the enemies is a good thing, but they never realized that they themselves, and their neighbors, would be wiretapped. That's why the uproar.
They would just say, "Hey Bill [in the U.S.]... did you get that? We have him clearly visible now. Oh, AES is it? You need help with the brute force? Sure thing."
Sweden reports to the U.S. and vice versa. This is fact. I don't think they'd cut you off transmitting. In any case they would make it easier for you in order to get you to talk more and contact the rest of your terrorist buddies in the good old Soviet.
Here are two facts: 1) Google already said they will not place any servers in Sweden, in case the law goes through. 2) Sweden's prime minister in conjunction with the defense minister fairly recently (no exact estimate) signed a treaty with the United States of America with the express purpose of sharing information obtained with wiretapping. Sweden's and the U.S. systems will be "integrated" and experience shared.
Ergo: big business have already identified this threat and we've already established a nice contract with the U.S. Telia, the largest ISP in Sweden, moved mail servers to Finland because their Finnish customers were getting worried.
It's all in the brand. In this case Photoshop which is well known. Free marketing. You see it everywhere..
No. Defending MS is admirable. But your argument and logic is flawed considering that you completely disregard that Microsoft is a monolopy and a different ruleset applies to them.
Re-think your position WITHOUT disregarding the monolopy situation.
Dude.. Microsoft is a monolopy. Look it up. Being a monolopy enables the state to apply stricter rules to you. What about this is hard to understand?
If a monolopist enters a new market there's a great risc that by being a monolopist they will drive competition out of the market.
Simple.
Now.. is Apple a monolopy?
Not in a positive way...
I live in Sweden. We're sort of secularized and seeing religious evangelists on TV (except perhaps fiction) is very uncommon. I must confess I haven't been to church in 18 years.. and by then I was a kid.
My last trip to New York offered me new insight on this though. While changing channels I saw a fair deal of (weird) christian stuff.
What *I* really don't get is why people don't just call Scientology for what it is: a sect. That way people who never heard of them will be better prepared when meeting a recruiting member and on guard.
Insisting that they are a Church really isn't fair to the other religions humanity knows. Nevermind they use a name with "church" in it (not in Israel..!). AFAIK Scientology is a company run by greedy, manipulative lunatics for sheer profit.
The weak minded and gullible are indoctrinated and *scammed* (which is an important point) by their people.
Come to think of it.. it is actually hard to draw a line what a church is. In the old times the christian Church scammed its members aswell (and banished its non-members). Scientologists are, as it seems, prohibitively aggressive.
The really interesting thing is that all these artists are old-timers whose glory days are long gone. All their work was produced (mostly) way back.
This really brings out the real trouble with the system. Somehow music is a perpetual machine in terms of money making. Now, I get that if someone uses your songs in order to MAKE MONEY, then they should give some back to you (since you're alive), since your work is obviously making money.
But going after file sharers just seems rather absurd to me especially since the artists considered haven't produced anything new in quite a while and so just wants free lunch. It DOES seem very greedy to me.
I mean.. Get to work like everybody else?
The current AI involved with Chess (and Go) are search-based. To me, search-based AI is just a dumb AI which can at most say that one strategy is better than another - which mostly is based on heuristics.
Afaik Big Blue had no reasoning behind its moves - just a vast bank of possible moves of which some were rated as better based on previous games by other master players.
It's even theorized that a semi-pro could have been more successful meeting Big Blue since the game style Big Blue used was on par with Kasparov which is different from a semi-pro.
Also, go is a number of magnitudes worse in complexity than chess (the larger spaces) which is why it is tough to "solve" - we can't store the entire solution set or search through it fast enough.
Search-based AI = stupid AI. Albeit efficient and sufficient at many tasks, it's not real AI.
This is false in Sweden. We issued a law which makes downloading copyrighted materials illegal as well.
I have now completely lost all my belief in mankind. This interesting new business model seems to be catching on to more and more business as they grow: the customer is your enemy.
Business has been reduced to spreadsheets with no touch with what the actual core business is. Sure, just outsource the core business and let the patents and lawsuits roll!