Proof there is a god....
May this happen to all downloaders.
A flash of lightning has spared the blushes of Ivar Wenster, head of culture in the southern Swedish city of Karlskrona, who caused quite a storm during the summer when he admitted to illegally downloading music from the Internet.
Wenster, who heads up the culture department for the local municipality, was reported to the police after admitting to file-sharing. But when lightning struck his home this summer it destroyed his computer, which held the technical evidence required by the prosecutor. The charges against him have been dropped as a result.
"The police actually laughed when I told them," said Wenster, speaking to The Local.
"It is of course a personal tragedy when your computer is burnt out. And it wasn't just my computer; it was my children's and wife's too," said Wenster.
posted by GayandRight @ 11:12 AM
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It's a good thing it's legal to download music in Canada.
Interesting point/counterpoint discussion of this issue here.
*innocently draws a curtian around a stack of nearly four hundred DVD-Rs full of infringement*
The music business went down hill years ago. It stopped producing talented and interesting acts in favour of pushing mass appeal artists with a social agenda behind them.
They caused their own problems. When records were king and one could record a cassette tape and I remember those days so well, I never saw the need to mass produce or share large quantities of music with others.. didn't have to. I know it was more difficult and time consuming and even costly but the potential rewards were there but few did it. That is the rub and until somebody can understand that the music and entertainment business is gonna be in trouble.
Whole industry is going to need rebuilding soon. Piracy, even on the largest of scales, is not going to destroy the. They can whine all they want, its just not going to happen. The real threat is going to be from the falling percieved value of data - how will they justify charging £17 for a disc to people who grew up knowing that copying is just four keystrokes, and all information can be found on Google?
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