Posts tagged “europe”
We are sorry
From http://www.sorrynorwaydenmark.com/: In the middle of all the mayhem surrounding the Danish cartoons controversy, a group of Arab and Muslim youth have set up this website to express their honest opinion, as a small attempt to show the world that the images shown of Arab and Muslim anger around the world are not representative of [...]
Back home
I got back from Germany last night after a long day of travelling. I managed to get a relaxing 3-hour sleep during the few hours of the morning before I took the local tram in Heidelberg to get the bus to Hahn airport. The RyanAir flight was full as expected (no point in flying empty [...]
Consumers Digital Rights
ǃ?P2P is like stealing a CD from a shop!ǃ? ǃ?We have to protect artists who are being robbed by consumers on the Internetǃ?. Big music and film companies are continuously feeding us claims like this on television, on the street and in the newspapers – painting private consumers as pirates and criminal. The same companies [...]
Non!
The French have voted against the European constitution. Antoin has some opinions in this matter, and extending on some of his views – I don’t think this issue is only limited to France. The reason why the constitution is ratified in over 10 countries is possibly the problem of communication. How many people actually know [...]
Dave Matthews and DRM
A VC writes how Dave Matthews has successfully began dissing customers fans with DRM included in their new album Stand Up. Usually many of the comments on Amazon regarding the album talk about the songs, naturally. But this time most of the comments are about DRM and how it crashes Windows computers, won’t allow you [...]