Copyright Law Fiasco
A lot has been said about the subject, a lot has been pointed out about the general cluelessness of it all. But the finnish government just wants to be more pope than the pope himself.
Indeed, a lot has been said, and I’m not going to try and rephrase it here. Let the following serve as a good selection of what/why/how things are going:
- A good summary of the situation is provided by Herkko Hietanen (and his blog has multiple entries on the subject) and EFFI (multiple entries as well, in finnish only).
- The “I’m a criminal blog”, proudly supported by the Lavonardo HQ as well.
- Merten’s well-worded statement to the unheard part of the equation: the finnish artists.
- Ministry of Information’s attack on bold (and stupid) words by the powers that be. (The last paragraph has the clue.)
- The story’s been picked up by the likes of boingboing, slashdot and ars technica. Which probably downgrades Finland’s undeserved 31337-status a few notches.
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