1984
Current mood: Gutted
I’ve felt lately that something has sucked all the energy out of me. Probably not strange since there’s been 
stuff going on, like this with my cat. A date has been set, but he’s still alive so I guess I can change my mind still.
Then there’s all the new laws here in Sweden. Like the IPRED-law as they call it. It stands for ‘Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive’. Which pretty much means that a record company or a film company can demand that an ISP hands out the information of who sits behind a certain IP-number. Then they can send that person a letter stating he or she should pay a ridiculously high amount of money or they drag you to court, and you will lose and pay even more money. And all they need as proof is a screen dump (which you absolutely not can throw together in, say, adobe photoshop, oh no). Not even the police have that right, to demand IP-numbers on such loose grounds, that someone might have uploaded or downloaded a file.
Now I of course don’t download.. Much. If I download it’s stuff I can’t get any other way. I mean that it’s too fucking expensive to buy a cd just for one song like I did like 10-12 years ago. Or there’s something I want that I can’t get in my mainstream record store here in town, like a new band or something. If I download it, like it, I of course buy the album.
I’m a traditionalist. I like to own the cd of the artist that I like, and I don’t particular like this development with buying song on itunes or wherever. But as said, they’re too expensive to buy and hoping you’ll love it. So thus, I only buy records by artist I know I like.
And the FRA-law? Don’t get me started.. Seems we’re not too far away from Orwell’s 1984.
In fact, we may already be there.
//Syntium
