today I am ashamed to be Swedish for just over an hour late, the time of writing, took the Swedish integrity of its last wheezing breath and lay down to die off roses. Sweden can now boast of a law which would have made the Stasi proud - IPRED is here! long live our elected officials who do not care to represent the people's voice! because IPRED not discussed nearly as much as fra-law, here are some goodies we can look forward to:
first civil lawsuits can be initiated without the accused learns of this and are ready to defend itself. in Basically, instead of sorting out simple misunderstandings directly with the person can a process be started against you and you can be arrested without knowing for what.
second you can as an individual to wake up one morning and discover that your assets are frozen, your bank accounts frozen. by whom? Police investigating you for Economic Crimes? No, the entertainment industry if they
suspect (not shown) illegal file sharing.
third same industry may now do a search in you or in your workplace without court authorization.
4th you can as the Swedish and EU citizens now look forward to possibly get your alleged file sharing tested in the us there as we all know the damages are a bit higher than on our side the Atlantic.
5th above means that the rule of law in Sweden is now quite ill and will eventually suffer the same fate to the meeting that integrity did today. what a beautiful country with friends and IPRED fra soon side by side!
but wait a minute, thinking readers - this affects well not me? I'm charging just download a movie now and then and that's hardly that I sell the material further. Unfortunately, unfortunately, good readers, now that we have introduced the Pax Americana in Sweden, I recommend that you google on the U.S. lawsuits against individual file sharers.
issue of copyright is of secondary nature right now. it appears in fact as a luxury we can debate in academic seminars. we've lost something big and important today - the rule of law has been raped by an effective lobbying organization. so yes, now my generation criminalized. we live literally outside the law now. will we stop interchange? definitely not. will reduce the file-sharing? if so marginally. We will be exceeded to death? Unfortunately, the major media will probably not be on our side - why should they? they are owned mostly by subsidiaries of the world's media giants. but what makes me really, really afraid, is that our so "great" public service, Sveriges Radio, not even taking up the law klubbats through the evening news. svt financed
our money, they should then also pick up news reports which affects large parts of the people. This will of course be done in an objective manner, but information is much needed.
so what should we do about it? sadly there is not much we can
do. it is naive to think that any demonstrations would do any good. government and parliament have repeatedly shown that they simply do not care. the we can do is to never be silent about this. we must not sit and nod and smile as a talented Swedish do. we must be cursed, then we can discuss further, but first and foremost we must be cursed!