Sitting in Arlanda Airport waiting for my flight to Gellivare, a small town in the north of Sweden.
This trip has not been welled planned as I actually managed to screw up my schedule and miss the first meeting we had booked. Not like me to do stuff like that. Well well, there’s got to be a first for everything… as long as theres no second.
In other news, the youth organization Ung Pirat (Young Pirates) has been granted ~130000€ by Ungdomsstyrelsen (a board that decides which youth organization should get support by the state) to further their activities and politics. “Ung Pirat” is the third largest youth org. in Sweden with 4800 members. Congratulations to them!
The Register also reports that the UK gov. is planning the creation of a “Rights agency” that are to “clamp down” on p-2-p users (whatever that means).
Meanwhile over at Isle of Man, they’re pushing for a compulsory tax for filesharing. Surprisingly enough the major record labels are positive (irony) and supports the idea. Someone please explain to me how this could ever be a good idea.. also please explain to me how these taxes would be evenly distributed among all artists being shared? Can I just create a band, put my stuff on ThePiratebay under a fake name, and then claim part of the tax money? Or do I need to be a big record label to get any of it? Bad idea overall…
Yeye… my flight’s leaving.
