totally, totally cool!

[miriam_e]

The backlash against the recording industry begins in earnest. I already know a lot of people who refuse to buy CDs made by the big corporations, but that, by itself can never be enough. Perhaps the recording industry execs need to be hit legally and hit heavily to make them stop hurting people. I have given up hoping that these paranoid coke-fried fools will realise that file sharing could be turned to their advantage and that file sharers are their best customers.

RIAA victim fights back.
Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of "outrage", and deceptive business practices.

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

And yet, in Finland:
A new, controversial law making its way through the Finnish parliament is confusing, but its implementation may infringe on already existing Finnish laws of free speech. With decisions set to be made later this week, a demonstration has already been planned for Tuesday. On the other hand, some sources seem to be saying that this new law should present no major issue. Thus, it seems like there's a small amount of confusing legal voodoo going on: while the law wouldn't make it illegal to copy music to MP3 players, it would mean that "the breaking of copy protection for the copying of the content of a sound or video recording for personal use would be prohibited." It looks like no one knows exactly what they want out of this law, or how to interpret it. DMCA, anyone?