The prisons in sweden is rather comfy if you are in the right one and know how to handle yourself... except that you regularly have to strip naked for the guards, you have little privacy, and there is a lot of bullying between harder criminals and softer ones...
Our prison system is no heaven, it's a lot worse for most people than living a free life... But yes, it is a lot easier on people than most other countries, and you do get a lot of goodwill if you behave.
However, it would be - as I explained in a previous reply - extremely bad for swedish filesharing if this man went to jail. Sure, for him it might be better, but for the community it would majorly suck, as this would open the door for more investigations to be started.
But still, no prison is on the chart for him - top sentence expected is probation.. which would have the same result though... so hope for a fine.
The likelihood of this person getting a prison sentence is about as likely as me growing a third arm in the next thirty seconds.
*waits* *waits* *waits*
Dang... I was hoping. Have you any idea how useful a third arm would be? I could mast... I mean... hold a cup while I drive. yeah, thats what i meant.
Anyway, back on topic... He is expected to get a fine or possibly... lets see if I remember my words correctly here... Probation? The general consesus us that if he gets a fine, IP adresses will in the future be illegal to get a hold of for cops if the crime suspected is copyright infringement. Thats because an IP-adress is protected under the same law as names, social security numbers, and other personal information. Any of these things may only be given out to authorities if the crime can give prison for a substansial time, i.e. two years or more... Copyright infringement in sweden can give UP to two years...
so It's touch and go at the moment... The piracy community is holding it's breath, and so does the legislators. Now it all depends on who chokes first. If this guy gets nothing but a fine, no matter how steep, nobody will ever have to fear prosecution for uploading until the laws are changed.
You do not seem to know much about intimate anatomy.
Ever heard of kegel exercizes? I've known women who have given birth that are tighter than some "virgins", just because they know they have muscles down there that can be used to heighten the experience for both parties.
Why should all that fall on the man, eh? Why should we eat pills and stretch it and even operate it just to get it bigger and better? But yes, I agree with you that a man has the right to "wish"... if he is so inclined.
Just. Stop. TRYING.
Nah, I'm pretty satisfied with my rather small pecker, myself. And so are the people I've shared it with... No reason to wish for a bigger lizard just because you have a lacking love-life... trust me, thats not because of the one-eyed trouser snake. Thats because of YOU.
Dang, here I was hoping to read an article about what I needed to learn to build my own celltower... Yet neither in teh blurb nor in the article does it mention anything about building a tower for cellphones... This is a landbased phone, as properly pointed out in the article, and the blurb... Why the misleading title?
Oh I say Curse You, vile slashdot, that wasted thirty seconds of my time, got my hopes up, and then wasted another minute because I of course had to spill my upset-ness into a string of words suitable for slashdotposting.
Now my own celltower... THAT would be cool. hook it up to the landline, configure the cellphone to use my own network when in reach, and bingo.. close to free cellphone calls. Make a few buddyes put up their own stuff, get roaming contracts written out, and all of a sudden any slashdotter in the vicinity can call for close to landline costs on their cells.
The theatres stay in business by sending bigshot movies as soon as they can, and small time movies up to a year late. e.g. Bad Santa, that was so late it was postponed to wait for the next christmas, which meant downloaders watched the directors cut Badder Santa while moviegoers watched an inferior version for twice the price and more...
The largest movies are however sent within a few weeks to a few months of the US release... some are starting to do a worldwide one day release as started by the LOTR series, and this is a way good thing. Well, for the movie theatres, that is.
But this is all severely of topi, of course, except for the part that digital projectors would allow for earlier worldwide screenings.
You pay the cost and I'm happy to put up a 30 foot widescreen - I do have the barnwall to fit it. Or a projector more likely, but same same.
I would however suggest that you bring a proffesional masseuse - in a hoem environment that large of a screen would entitle way to much twist of the neck, since I do not have the room for properly distanced seats in that locale.
And size is not everything - it is just one of the factors. It can be compensated by any measure of others. Of course this goes regardless of what subject we would be discussing.
Hey join the club. I also question what is insightful about my comment. However - there is little I can do about this unfortunatly, other than smile at all the karma. Perhaps people just relate well to the eternal struggle between good and bad...
I have noted slashdot moderation is much a thing about being at the right place at the right time and insulting the right people, and conversely, not the wrong people.
Well, according to what I have heard earlier in this development the cost of digital distribution is pretty much forgettable when it compares to the analog medium. Each copy of the analog film is horribly expensive, as in fourfigure dollar amounts, while the digital medium is the prize of a dvd disc or some bandwidth.
Of course it is horribly expensive to install digital projectors, but this is a cost that is covered by gained profits in a very short period of time, considering the high costs of analog film media. But still, it is a cost. Many theaters can not cover such an expense by temselves. But if they could...
oh the movies they could show - anything anytime comes to mind. The prizedrop means they could air old movies without losing money.
But but... I still cant figure out if this is good or bad. I mean, I can still watch the old ones at home, for a fraction of the cost. Is movietheatres even something we should invest in at this point in time? Would it not be better to spend the money on cheap digital distribution directly to the clients computers and home entertainmentnt systems?
Well, on one hand my first thought is "great, this is a great move and I hopw the entire world follows so we can watch digital movies at any theatre".
But it is quickly followed up by the thought that "But seriously... My entertainment system is already digital. Why go elsewhere?"
Sure, a 30 foot screen is bigger than a 32", but hey, size is not everything. And I can always get a projector. By then, teh advantages of move theatres has kind agone bye bye... I have usually seen everything by the time it reaches the screen here in sweden anyways. (Sometimes up to a year after the american release)
So sure.. digital theatres are good... but only because it is cheaper to distrbute movies for th ecompanies. This way they might cut the prizes, distribute worldwide quicker, and possibly even start to gain some ground on the pirating market. But still... Just buy me a popcornmachine and I'd rather stay home - with friends.
Nah, I cant decide. What do you think.. good step or bad step, or just a completely useless step?
It doesnt have to kill you to be a weapon. A weapon is just what is employed to threaten you or your way of life.
But sure, for the sake of the argument, let us say it does have to be lethal to be counted as a weapon - Terror has a higher chance of killing people than for instance a paintball gun, yet it is classified as a weapon. So is a slingshot, technically, and a nailfile if you try to get through airport security.
So his weapon is terror - that is to scare the crapola out of people in order to make them jump through hoops that he hold up.
ergo, he is per definition a terrorist.
Then again, by wielding the same arguments, so is Bush, and any other president and leader of nations out there. They just prefer to call it by nicer words. Cause words make all the difference.
I might also suggest you are anal, but I'd much rather suggest to the author of the article to get out while he can, or stop fuzzing and wirte a long list.
Simpel fact is that the company gets an opening to screw him over no matter how broadly he closes out the past projects.
Heck, I reprogrammed hangman when I was around 8, they could sure use the IP embedded in those long lists of less than politically correct words and phrases.
Get out.. get out now! If you wanna fetch coffee all day, go work at starbucks and start your own company at any spare time you manage to find.
Okay... I can live with getting points. Heck, I like getting points, it shows people like my writings. But seriously... interesting?
That would mean you find it an ntreesting idea to give people more drugs so that you can have casual conversations with them, or that you find it interesting that morphine rocks.
1 The placebo effect
DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.
What do you mean do NOT try this at home? Oh... yeah... I see now. You are absolutetly right, I would also much rather stick with the morphine.
On an unrelated note, ever had a parent dying of cancer or something similar? Ever noticed how amusing it can be to talk to them while they are on morphine? Well, apart from the sad parts then. My mother died a week ago or so, and the last time I met her I couldnt stop laughing.
Glad she wasnt on saline.;)
This way we got a happy last meeting.
Okay, I admit... I will probably have to see one of them shows one of them days just to find out what the fuzz is about... But until my broadband access gets fixed... can anyone answer the slightly hard-pronounced question.... Dr. Who WHO? What is this all about, anyways?
Lets pull a BFT (Big Frikkin Tube) straight through earth, or since the core is so hot and all, pull it around a bit under the surface. Top the opening of the tube with a BFM (Big Frikkin ((Parabolic)) Mirror) and you have sunlight 24/7! Of course, the sunlight YOU receive would have to be taxed by every country the tube passes through, and the BFB (Big Frikkin Bill) would be delivered by way of RFT (Real Frikkin Tired) carrier pigeon from uzbekistan.
Okay, I admit I do download a lot of crap... well, not crap, but general stuff... this is fortunatly not illegal in sweden... Yet.
But I must also admit I am really looking forward to the day I could legally for a nominal fee download music, videos, and other crap.
Why? Well, because I am one of those who download because of poor distribution and high pricing of whatever it is I look for. I dont want to pay the shipping from Uzbekistan for my latest dvd of "grown men whacking of in a circle while wearing starwars costumes" and I sure as heck dont want to pay the sales taxes for the crap, the distributors of the crap, and the nosy mailman that always gives me that quirky smile when he hands me the latest package of crap. I'd much rather pay the makers of the crap a buck or two which could probably feed them for a year, and download the crap torrent.
So I am definatly one of those that gets really happy by every step taken in the direction of online purchases of crap made easy (and eventually cheap).
Hmmm... reading through my post I seem to realize (almost) that most of that stuff is.... Crap.
Maybe I would rather not pay for it after all =P still, happy days for the BT people of the world!
>>AFAIK they go by a law allowing "citizens >>arrest". >Not at all in this case, it was for copyright >infringement.
Yeah, so are the cases when they do go by that law. They said so themselves, so we HAVE to believe them. No really.
But those cases are against private persons, and as you say this was a company. Thank you very much for clearing up the specifics on that particular type of case.
And on an unrelated note (not really)....
this sucks. Sometimes I wish there was a delete button on some events in life. Things I would be happy to erase includes 9/11, the raid on Bahnhof, and that time in first grade when the older kinds convinced me it was fun to run naked into the girls lockerroom and the teacher turned out to be there.
Seriously... who can one trust these days? Soon I will have to keep my passwords secret from myself due to severe trust issues.
Hmmm... see, most govenments tend to do their secret projects with a key ingredient called "plausable deniability". If you hide it on your own property in such a way that you could claim there is a chance that someone else hid that remotecontrolled p2pdownloading miniatx-in-a-nes8bit-case-with-weird-antennas linuxbox on your property, then you have plausable deniability.
But sure... for the sake of theory, add a "remote" to it, so it only starts if your four switch fanbus is set to "up down center down" or "left right left right up up b a start+select". Any raid they do is mostly about removing stuff, so if they cant turn it on they cant find it, if they cant find it they cant take it, if they cant take it, then you cant get sent to... well, wherever people who get caught sent. Poland or something.
Today you can hide a miniature puter that just works for storage and download pretty much anywhere, what with mini-atx and wlan and stuff. How about in the case with your old tv? How about a waterproof case in your toilets tank? How about in the fanducts of the apartement... good cooling solutions possible. How about... nah, your gf would never speak to you again if you suggested THAT.
unless she's A+ geekster with a fetish for gumstrip-puters.
(whatever you download today might be illegal tomorrow. Prepare.)
AFAIK they go by a law allowing "citizens arrest". For this to be applicable the crime you make yourself guilty of must be such that you CAN be sent to prison for a time of at least two years if sentenced.
Basically any swedish citizen can arrest any person commiting such a crime at any time. If the arrested refuse to follow you to the police station, the arrested party gets "resisting arrest" on his newly aquired record.
Anyways... This does NOT give the anti piracy bureau any permission to enter your home or search through your stuff. So simply go out, lock the door behind you, and they will have close to no proof, while your friends put your burned cd collection in the blender.
Sure, you will be in trouble... but a lot less than you would if they had proof.
AFAIK the raid on Bahnhof HQ was also made by the police, on a tip from the Anti Piracy Bureau, not by the APB itself. So... no need to freak out in sweden. Not yet. But... we are pretty farking close.
Hmmm... with a big enough USB drive and a p2p program that needs no install and downloads in small chunks, easy resumable...
I could see that working. Of course, I'm too lazy to go through all that trouble, so I just set up an unprotected WiFi, purge all connection logs regularly, and claim I have no idea who downloaded the whatever it was thats on my heavily encrypted wireless external harddrive hidden where No Man Would Want To Go... (under the GF's tampax)
*cough* well thats what I could do, theoretically, if I was ethically challenged and did not believe in "intellectual property" and other fairytales.
Well, not that I am one to answer to this, considering I am not boycotting them and not downloading their stuff, but seriously, how where you thinking there, AC?
A boycott is about removing a companies income from a certain product. Traditionally this meant nobody could consume the product without stealing it, but in these days when electronic media means you can eat the cookie and still have it... A fully valid means of boycott is to just NOT PAY. Of course this is illegal in many countries, but this seams to matter very little to most people anyways.
Every leecher out there that never buys a CD is effectivly boycotting the music industry. You can already see that it is having a huge effect on them - even if their profits are high as ever, they scream loudly to protect their income. Of course, screaming wont help much.
The more people that stop paying, the louder they will scream... until they either break, or change.
The example you asked for:
Quite a few years ago swedish companies sold this brest-milk-replacement-formula stuff in african countries, claiming in their advertisements that it was better for the children than breastmilk. Of course this is totally untrue, especially since they most often mixed the formula in unclean water, which killed a lot of children. Also the first breastmilk contains stuff you need to get in order for the immunosystem to work properly.
Anyways, here in sweden people started boycotting this company. They made a lot of other stuff as well, such as meals ready to eat and stuff like that. Took a few months, and the company had to change their entire campaign in the affected african countries, and sponsor a drive to tell people not to use formula at least for the first few weeks, and always use boiled and clean water.
Why? Well, simple... Any company will change their ways if they realise they stand to loose a significant marketshare if they do not. If a tactic becomes to costly, it will change.
But you are half right though.. Boycotts do not work if only one person is boycotting.
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The prisons in sweden is rather comfy if you are in the right one and know how to handle yourself... except that you regularly have to strip naked for the guards, you have little privacy, and there is a lot of bullying between harder criminals and softer ones...
Our prison system is no heaven, it's a lot worse for most people than living a free life... But yes, it is a lot easier on people than most other countries, and you do get a lot of goodwill if you behave.
However, it would be - as I explained in a previous reply - extremely bad for swedish filesharing if this man went to jail. Sure, for him it might be better, but for the community it would majorly suck, as this would open the door for more investigations to be started.
But still, no prison is on the chart for him - top sentence expected is probation.. which would have the same result though... so hope for a fine.
The likelihood of this person getting a prison sentence is about as likely as me growing a third arm in the next thirty seconds.
*waits* *waits* *waits*
Dang... I was hoping. Have you any idea how useful a third arm would be? I could mast... I mean... hold a cup while I drive. yeah, thats what i meant.
Anyway, back on topic... He is expected to get a fine or possibly... lets see if I remember my words correctly here... Probation? The general consesus us that if he gets a fine, IP adresses will in the future be illegal to get a hold of for cops if the crime suspected is copyright infringement. Thats because an IP-adress is protected under the same law as names, social security numbers, and other personal information. Any of these things may only be given out to authorities if the crime can give prison for a substansial time, i.e. two years or more... Copyright infringement in sweden can give UP to two years...
so It's touch and go at the moment... The piracy community is holding it's breath, and so does the legislators. Now it all depends on who chokes first. If this guy gets nothing but a fine, no matter how steep, nobody will ever have to fear prosecution for uploading until the laws are changed.
Yay for loopholes!
You forgot about the worlds highest taxes.
Other than that its mostly same, same but different.
You do not seem to know much about intimate anatomy.
Ever heard of kegel exercizes? I've known women who have given birth that are tighter than some "virgins", just because they know they have muscles down there that can be used to heighten the experience for both parties.
Why should all that fall on the man, eh? Why should we eat pills and stretch it and even operate it just to get it bigger and better? But yes, I agree with you that a man has the right to "wish"... if he is so inclined.
Just. Stop. TRYING.
Nah, I'm pretty satisfied with my rather small pecker, myself. And so are the people I've shared it with... No reason to wish for a bigger lizard just because you have a lacking love-life... trust me, thats not because of the one-eyed trouser snake. Thats because of YOU.
Ya said:
"All we have to do is convince Dubya that spam funds terrorism..."
and ya know... that is not such a halfassed idea after all. No, seriously...
Everyone, start a acampaign! "Spam helps fund int'l terrorism" is the message, and we want to be sure the politicians of the united states hear us!
A few spammers in guantanamo and life will be much nicer, dontya think?
Dang, here I was hoping to read an article about what I needed to learn to build my own celltower... Yet neither in teh blurb nor in the article does it mention anything about building a tower for cellphones... This is a landbased phone, as properly pointed out in the article, and the blurb... Why the misleading title?
Oh I say Curse You, vile slashdot, that wasted thirty seconds of my time, got my hopes up, and then wasted another minute because I of course had to spill my upset-ness into a string of words suitable for slashdotposting.
Now my own celltower... THAT would be cool. hook it up to the landline, configure the cellphone to use my own network when in reach, and bingo.. close to free cellphone calls. Make a few buddyes put up their own stuff, get roaming contracts written out, and all of a sudden any slashdotter in the vicinity can call for close to landline costs on their cells.
The theatres stay in business by sending bigshot movies as soon as they can, and small time movies up to a year late. e.g. Bad Santa, that was so late it was postponed to wait for the next christmas, which meant downloaders watched the directors cut Badder Santa while moviegoers watched an inferior version for twice the price and more...
The largest movies are however sent within a few weeks to a few months of the US release... some are starting to do a worldwide one day release as started by the LOTR series, and this is a way good thing. Well, for the movie theatres, that is.
But this is all severely of topi, of course, except for the part that digital projectors would allow for earlier worldwide screenings.
You pay the cost and I'm happy to put up a 30 foot widescreen - I do have the barnwall to fit it. Or a projector more likely, but same same.
I would however suggest that you bring a proffesional masseuse - in a hoem environment that large of a screen would entitle way to much twist of the neck, since I do not have the room for properly distanced seats in that locale.
And size is not everything - it is just one of the factors. It can be compensated by any measure of others. Of course this goes regardless of what subject we would be discussing.
Hey join the club. I also question what is insightful about my comment. However - there is little I can do about this unfortunatly, other than smile at all the karma. Perhaps people just relate well to the eternal struggle between good and bad...
I have noted slashdot moderation is much a thing about being at the right place at the right time and insulting the right people, and conversely, not the wrong people.
Well, according to what I have heard earlier in this development the cost of digital distribution is pretty much forgettable when it compares to the analog medium. Each copy of the analog film is horribly expensive, as in fourfigure dollar amounts, while the digital medium is the prize of a dvd disc or some bandwidth.
Of course it is horribly expensive to install digital projectors, but this is a cost that is covered by gained profits in a very short period of time, considering the high costs of analog film media. But still, it is a cost. Many theaters can not cover such an expense by temselves. But if they could...
oh the movies they could show - anything anytime comes to mind. The prizedrop means they could air old movies without losing money.
But but... I still cant figure out if this is good or bad. I mean, I can still watch the old ones at home, for a fraction of the cost. Is movietheatres even something we should invest in at this point in time? Would it not be better to spend the money on cheap digital distribution directly to the clients computers and home entertainmentnt systems?
Well, on one hand my first thought is "great, this is a great move and I hopw the entire world follows so we can watch digital movies at any theatre".
But it is quickly followed up by the thought that "But seriously... My entertainment system is already digital. Why go elsewhere?"
Sure, a 30 foot screen is bigger than a 32", but hey, size is not everything. And I can always get a projector. By then, teh advantages of move theatres has kind agone bye bye... I have usually seen everything by the time it reaches the screen here in sweden anyways. (Sometimes up to a year after the american release)
So sure.. digital theatres are good... but only because it is cheaper to distrbute movies for th ecompanies. This way they might cut the prizes, distribute worldwide quicker, and possibly even start to gain some ground on the pirating market. But still... Just buy me a popcornmachine and I'd rather stay home - with friends.
Nah, I cant decide. What do you think.. good step or bad step, or just a completely useless step?
It doesnt have to kill you to be a weapon. A weapon is just what is employed to threaten you or your way of life.
But sure, for the sake of the argument, let us say it does have to be lethal to be counted as a weapon - Terror has a higher chance of killing people than for instance a paintball gun, yet it is classified as a weapon. So is a slingshot, technically, and a nailfile if you try to get through airport security.
So his weapon is terror - that is to scare the crapola out of people in order to make them jump through hoops that he hold up.
ergo, he is per definition a terrorist.
Then again, by wielding the same arguments, so is Bush, and any other president and leader of nations out there. They just prefer to call it by nicer words. Cause words make all the difference.
I might also suggest you are anal, but I'd much rather suggest to the author of the article to get out while he can, or stop fuzzing and wirte a long list.
Simpel fact is that the company gets an opening to screw him over no matter how broadly he closes out the past projects.
Heck, I reprogrammed hangman when I was around 8, they could sure use the IP embedded in those long lists of less than politically correct words and phrases.
Get out.. get out now! If you wanna fetch coffee all day, go work at starbucks and start your own company at any spare time you manage to find.
Okay... I can live with getting points. Heck, I like getting points, it shows people like my writings. But seriously... interesting?
That would mean you find it an ntreesting idea to give people more drugs so that you can have casual conversations with them, or that you find it interesting that morphine rocks.
hmmm...
Nah.
From the article:
;)
1 The placebo effect
DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.
What do you mean do NOT try this at home? Oh... yeah... I see now. You are absolutetly right, I would also much rather stick with the morphine.
On an unrelated note, ever had a parent dying of cancer or something similar? Ever noticed how amusing it can be to talk to them while they are on morphine? Well, apart from the sad parts then. My mother died a week ago or so, and the last time I met her I couldnt stop laughing.
Glad she wasnt on saline.
This way we got a happy last meeting.
Yay for drugs!
oooooh.... DR. Him... But I though Who was on first?
Yeah, you're right, that was a really lame attempt at a bad pun. Which was it's intention. So HA friggin HA.
And thank you very much for the information.
Okay, I admit... I will probably have to see one of them shows one of them days just to find out what the fuzz is about... But until my broadband access gets fixed... can anyone answer the slightly hard-pronounced question.... Dr. Who WHO? What is this all about, anyways?
Lets pull a BFT (Big Frikkin Tube) straight through earth, or since the core is so hot and all, pull it around a bit under the surface. Top the opening of the tube with a BFM (Big Frikkin ((Parabolic)) Mirror) and you have sunlight 24/7! Of course, the sunlight YOU receive would have to be taxed by every country the tube passes through, and the BFB (Big Frikkin Bill) would be delivered by way of RFT (Real Frikkin Tired) carrier pigeon from uzbekistan.
Woohooo... this makes me happy...
Okay, I admit I do download a lot of crap... well, not crap, but general stuff... this is fortunatly not illegal in sweden... Yet.
But I must also admit I am really looking forward to the day I could legally for a nominal fee download music, videos, and other crap.
Why? Well, because I am one of those who download because of poor distribution and high pricing of whatever it is I look for. I dont want to pay the shipping from Uzbekistan for my latest dvd of "grown men whacking of in a circle while wearing starwars costumes" and I sure as heck dont want to pay the sales taxes for the crap, the distributors of the crap, and the nosy mailman that always gives me that quirky smile when he hands me the latest package of crap. I'd much rather pay the makers of the crap a buck or two which could probably feed them for a year, and download the crap torrent.
So I am definatly one of those that gets really happy by every step taken in the direction of online purchases of crap made easy (and eventually cheap).
Hmmm... reading through my post I seem to realize (almost) that most of that stuff is.... Crap.
Maybe I would rather not pay for it after all =P
still, happy days for the BT people of the world!
>>AFAIK they go by a law allowing "citizens
>>arrest".
>Not at all in this case, it was for copyright >infringement.
Yeah, so are the cases when they do go by that law. They said so themselves, so we HAVE to believe them. No really.
But those cases are against private persons, and as you say this was a company. Thank you very much for clearing up the specifics on that particular type of case.
And on an unrelated note (not really)....
this sucks. Sometimes I wish there was a delete button on some events in life. Things I would be happy to erase includes 9/11, the raid on Bahnhof, and that time in first grade when the older kinds convinced me it was fun to run naked into the girls lockerroom and the teacher turned out to be there.
Seriously... who can one trust these days? Soon I will have to keep my passwords secret from myself due to severe trust issues.
Hmmm... see, most govenments tend to do their secret projects with a key ingredient called "plausable deniability". If you hide it on your own property in such a way that you could claim there is a chance that someone else hid that remotecontrolled p2pdownloading miniatx-in-a-nes8bit-case-with-weird-antennas linuxbox on your property, then you have plausable deniability.
But sure... for the sake of theory, add a "remote" to it, so it only starts if your four switch fanbus is set to "up down center down" or "left right left right up up b a start+select". Any raid they do is mostly about removing stuff, so if they cant turn it on they cant find it, if they cant find it they cant take it, if they cant take it, then you cant get sent to... well, wherever people who get caught sent. Poland or something.
Today you can hide a miniature puter that just works for storage and download pretty much anywhere, what with mini-atx and wlan and stuff. How about in the case with your old tv? How about a waterproof case in your toilets tank? How about in the fanducts of the apartement... good cooling solutions possible. How about... nah, your gf would never speak to you again if you suggested THAT.
unless she's A+ geekster with a fetish for gumstrip-puters.
(whatever you download today might be illegal tomorrow. Prepare.)
AFAIK they go by a law allowing "citizens arrest". For this to be applicable the crime you make yourself guilty of must be such that you CAN be sent to prison for a time of at least two years if sentenced.
Basically any swedish citizen can arrest any person commiting such a crime at any time. If the arrested refuse to follow you to the police station, the arrested party gets "resisting arrest" on his newly aquired record.
Anyways... This does NOT give the anti piracy bureau any permission to enter your home or search through your stuff. So simply go out, lock the door behind you, and they will have close to no proof, while your friends put your burned cd collection in the blender.
Sure, you will be in trouble... but a lot less than you would if they had proof.
AFAIK the raid on Bahnhof HQ was also made by the police, on a tip from the Anti Piracy Bureau, not by the APB itself. So... no need to freak out in sweden. Not yet. But... we are pretty farking close.
Hmmm... with a big enough USB drive and a p2p program that needs no install and downloads in small chunks, easy resumable...
I could see that working. Of course, I'm too lazy to go through all that trouble, so I just set up an unprotected WiFi, purge all connection logs regularly, and claim I have no idea who downloaded the whatever it was thats on my heavily encrypted wireless external harddrive hidden where No Man Would Want To Go... (under the GF's tampax)
*cough* well thats what I could do, theoretically, if I was ethically challenged and did not believe in "intellectual property" and other fairytales.
Well, not that I am one to answer to this, considering I am not boycotting them and not downloading their stuff, but seriously, how where you thinking there, AC?
A boycott is about removing a companies income from a certain product. Traditionally this meant nobody could consume the product without stealing it, but in these days when electronic media means you can eat the cookie and still have it... A fully valid means of boycott is to just NOT PAY. Of course this is illegal in many countries, but this seams to matter very little to most people anyways.
Every leecher out there that never buys a CD is effectivly boycotting the music industry. You can already see that it is having a huge effect on them - even if their profits are high as ever, they scream loudly to protect their income. Of course, screaming wont help much.
The more people that stop paying, the louder they will scream... until they either break, or change.
Now THAT is a boycott.
Oh boycotts do work, trust me.
The example you asked for:
Quite a few years ago swedish companies sold this brest-milk-replacement-formula stuff in african countries, claiming in their advertisements that it was better for the children than breastmilk. Of course this is totally untrue, especially since they most often mixed the formula in unclean water, which killed a lot of children. Also the first breastmilk contains stuff you need to get in order for the immunosystem to work properly.
Anyways, here in sweden people started boycotting this company. They made a lot of other stuff as well, such as meals ready to eat and stuff like that. Took a few months, and the company had to change their entire campaign in the affected african countries, and sponsor a drive to tell people not to use formula at least for the first few weeks, and always use boiled and clean water.
Why? Well, simple... Any company will change their ways if they realise they stand to loose a significant marketshare if they do not. If a tactic becomes to costly, it will change.
But you are half right though.. Boycotts do not work if only one person is boycotting.